HueComb

Almond Brittle

#e5d3b9

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#e5d3b9

RGB

229, 211, 185

OKLCh

87.5% 0.040 77.1°

CIELAB (D50)

85.5, 3.4, 15.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 70 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 36% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.0; on black, Lc -81.3. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.6 and 8.9 and 20.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85745d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e5d3b9

protanopia

#d5d5b9 · ΔE00 8.6

deuteranopia

#d8d8b8 · ΔE00 8.9

tritanopia

#dcdc53 · ΔE00 20.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Buttercream at ΔE00 0.777: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Warm ButtercreamΔE00 0.777 · #e6d5ba
  • Almendra TostadaΔE00 0.8 · #e8d6bd
  • Courtyard TanΔE00 0.825 · #e3d3ba
  • Dust StormΔE00 0.871 · #e7d3b7
  • AebleskiverΔE00 0.965 · #e6d3b6
  • Toasted CashewΔE00 0.99 · #e2d0b8
  • ScallywagΔE00 0.992 · #e5d5bd
  • Mown HayΔE00 0.997 · #e6d3bb
  • Writer’s ParchmentΔE00 1.012 · #e9d6bd
  • Comfy BeigeΔE00 1.015 · #e3d2b6
  • Inside PassageΔE00 1.082 · #e0cfb5
  • Baked SconeΔE00 1.107 · #e5d3bc

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.