Golden Talisman
#e9c89b
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
#e9c89b
RGB
233, 200, 155
OKLCh
85.0% 0.070 75.2°
CIELAB (D50)
82.7, 7.4, 27.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 28 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 26.7; on black, Lc -76.3. 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 11.8 and 11.9 and 21.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#907247 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
#e9c89b
protanopia
#cccc9b · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#d2d29a · ΔE00 11.9
tritanopia
#d9d900 · ΔE00 21.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isElectrum at ΔE00 0.746: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ElectrumΔE00 0.746 · #e7c697
- Compatible CreamΔE00 0.775 · #e8c89e
- Filtered MoonΔE00 0.888 · #ecca9a
- Cream SnapΔE00 0.933 · #eccba0
- HarvestΔE00 0.986 · #eacb9d
- Quiet StarΔE00 1.053 · #eecc9f
- Jasper CaneΔE00 1.065 · #e7c89f
- Golden City MoonΔE00 1.164 · #ecc799
- Bird’s-Eye MapleΔE00 1.277 · #e4c495
- Chestnut DressingΔE00 1.315 · #ebc795
- ChamomileΔE00 1.424 · #e4c697
- Crumble ToppingΔE00 1.437 · #efcea0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.