Freshly Baked
#e9c180
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e9c180
RGB
233, 193, 128
OKLCh
83.2% 0.094 79.0°
CIELAB (D50)
80.6, 8.7, 38.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 22 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 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.1; on black, Lc -72.7. 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 12.5 and 12.8 and 18.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.69:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#95712f 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
#e9c180
protanopia
#c6c680 · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#cece7e · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#d6d600 · ΔE00 18.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCharismatic at ΔE00 0.588: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CharismaticΔE00 0.588 · #e7c180
- Honey BearΔE00 0.596 · #e8c281
- Oats and HoneyΔE00 0.799 · #e7bf81
- Deserted PathΔE00 0.826 · #e7bf7b
- Gold BuffΔE00 0.828 · #ecc481
- Wild BambooΔE00 1.051 · #eac37e
- Cassava CakeΔE00 1.06 · #e7c084
- Golden HominyΔE00 1.174 · #edc283
- Garbanzo PasteΔE00 1.227 · #eec684
- Piedra de SolΔE00 1.246 · #eac185
- PolentaΔE00 1.27 · #efc47f
- Delightful MoonΔE00 1.437 · #ebbe7c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.