Fatty Sashimi
#eec4b4
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
#eec4b4
RGB
238, 196, 180
OKLCh
85.3% 0.053 41.9°
CIELAB (D50)
82.6, 13.7, 14.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 18.6 and 19.8 and 32.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#946e60 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
#eec4b4
protanopia
#c9c9b4 · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#d1d1b3 · ΔE00 19.8
tritanopia
#dada00 · ΔE00 32.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrilliant Beige at ΔE00 0.241: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brilliant BeigeΔE00 0.241 · #efc5b5
- Peach TemptationΔE00 1.267 · #f2c5b2
- Mellow MarrowΔE00 1.386 · #e8c2b4
- EverbloomingΔE00 1.388 · #f0c8b6
- ZinnwalditeΔE00 1.43 · #ebc2af
- Spiced OrangeΔE00 1.447 · #edc7b6
- Antoinette PinkΔE00 1.63 · #e7c2b4
- TacoΔE00 1.666 · #f3c7b3
- Pink PierisΔE00 1.672 · #efc9b8
- Bare NecessityΔE00 1.884 · #efc9b7
- Baked HamΔE00 1.906 · #eec8bc
- Sweet AngelΔE00 1.989 · #f5c8bb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.