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#ebdbc1
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
#ebdbc1
RGB
235, 219, 193
OKLCh
89.8% 0.039 80.0°
CIELAB (D50)
88.2, 2.6, 14.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 72 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 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.7; on black, Lc -85.9. 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 7.7 and 7.9 and 17.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#83755d 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
#ebdbc1
protanopia
#ddddc1 · ΔE00 7.7
deuteranopia
#e0e0c1 · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#e3e371 · ΔE00 17.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLudlow Beige at ΔE00 0.482: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ludlow BeigeΔE00 0.482 · #ebdac0
- Eaglet BeigeΔE00 0.562 · #e9d9c0
- Pine NutΔE00 0.745 · #eadac2
- Echelon EcruΔE00 0.856 · #e7d8be
- Wild OatsΔE00 0.99 · #ecdbc3
- NaperyΔE00 1.019 · #efddc1
- JakartaΔE00 1.035 · #efddc3
- NobilityΔE00 1.038 · #ecdec5
- Steamed MilkΔE00 1.066 · #ead8be
- Roycroft VellumΔE00 1.095 · #e8d9bd
- Golden LotusΔE00 1.124 · #e9dbc4
- Arizona WhiteΔE00 1.153 · #e8dac3
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.