Patisserie
#eddbc8
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
#eddbc8
RGB
237, 219, 200
OKLCh
90.1% 0.032 68.9°
CIELAB (D50)
88.5, 4.1, 11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 52 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.1; on black, Lc -86.5. 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 9.0 and 9.5 and 20.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847463 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
#eddbc8
protanopia
#ddddc8 · ΔE00 9.0
deuteranopia
#e0e0c8 · ΔE00 9.5
tritanopia
#e4e470 · ΔE00 20.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSandpiper at ΔE00 0.529: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SandpiperΔE00 0.529 · #ebdac8
- AlmondΔE00 0.723 · #eddcc8
- Castle in the CloudsΔE00 0.759 · #efdcca
- Toasted OatmealΔE00 0.795 · #efdecc
- Bare BoneΔE00 0.878 · #eeddcc
- Vanilla MochaΔE00 0.894 · #ebdbc8
- Chinese HamsterΔE00 0.941 · #ebdbca
- Pearled IvoryΔE00 0.956 · #f0dfcc
- Intricate IvoryΔE00 0.959 · #edddca
- CoralliteΔE00 0.983 · #f0dfcd
- Oatmeal CookieΔE00 1.16 · #eadac6
- LambskinΔE00 1.245 · #ebdcca
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.