HueComb

Silk for the Gods

#ecddc9

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

#ecddc9

RGB

236, 221, 201

OKLCh

90.4% 0.031 75.2°

CIELAB (D50)

88.9, 2.9, 11.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 78 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 39% 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 16.4; on black, Lc -87.2. 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 7.5 and 7.9 and 17.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.75:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.75:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827563 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

#ecddc9

protanopia

#dfdfc9 · ΔE00 7.5

deuteranopia

#e2e2c9 · ΔE00 7.9

tritanopia

#e5e585 · ΔE00 17.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIntricate Ivory at ΔE00 0.713: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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