Laksa
#e6bf95
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
#e6bf95
RGB
230, 191, 149
OKLCh
82.9% 0.071 68.7°
CIELAB (D50)
80.1, 10.1, 26.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.8; on black, Lc -72.0. 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 14.1 and 14.3 and 23.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#947048 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e6bf95
protanopia
#c4c495 · ΔE00 14.1
deuteranopia
#cbcb94 · ΔE00 14.3
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 23.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApple Turnover at ΔE00 0.959: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Apple TurnoverΔE00 0.959 · #e8c194
- Homeward BoundΔE00 1.126 · #e9bf91
- Gold PlateΔE00 1.138 · #e6bd8f
- LamaΔE00 1.521 · #e0bb95
- TostadaΔE00 1.706 · #e3c19c
- Honey NougatΔE00 1.719 · #e0bb96
- PanchoΔE00 1.726 · #dfb992
- Raw PeanutΔE00 1.758 · #e4bc8c
- Dark YellowΔE00 1.831 · #e7bf8e
- Golden Oat ColouredΔE00 1.846 · #ecbe91
- Pine GrainΔE00 2.006 · #ebc79e
- Pan TostadoΔE00 2.027 · #e8be99
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.