Cashew Nut
#edccb3
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
#edccb3
RGB
237, 204, 179
OKLCh
86.7% 0.050 59.2°
CIELAB (D50)
84.4, 9.2, 17.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.9; on black, Lc -79.3. 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 14.9 and 15.4 and 26.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.51:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f715a 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
#edccb3
protanopia
#d0d0b3 · ΔE00 14.9
deuteranopia
#d6d6b2 · ΔE00 15.4
tritanopia
#dddd00 · ΔE00 26.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach Darling at ΔE00 0.442: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Peach DarlingΔE00 0.442 · #efcdb4
- Sweet OrangeΔE00 0.705 · #ebccb3
- Desert SandΔE00 1.083 · #edc9af
- Sun KissΔE00 1.408 · #eacdb7
- Apricot FreezeΔE00 1.481 · #f3cfb7
- Peach PuréeΔE00 1.481 · #eed0b6
- Aristocrat PeachΔE00 1.515 · #ecceb9
- Pale CoralΔE00 1.533 · #f0d0b4
- Only YesterdayΔE00 1.56 · #f4d1b9
- Desert FieldΔE00 1.735 · #efcdb8
- ClamshellΔE00 1.773 · #edd0b6
- Woodstock RoseΔE00 1.836 · #e9cab6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.