Negroni
#eec7a2
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
#eec7a2
RGB
238, 199, 162
OKLCh
85.4% 0.066 65.2°
CIELAB (D50)
83.0, 10.5, 24.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 26.2; on black, Lc -76.8. 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 15.0 and 24.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#93704d 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
#eec7a2
protanopia
#cccca2 · ΔE00 14.9
deuteranopia
#d3d3a1 · ΔE00 15.0
tritanopia
#dbdb00 · ΔE00 24.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTurnip Boy at ΔE00 0.613: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Turnip BoyΔE00 0.613 · #efc6a1
- Peaches’n’CreamΔE00 0.792 · #eec9a6
- Radome TanΔE00 0.826 · #f1c7a1
- Peach LatteΔE00 1.704 · #e7c19f
- Toasted CoconutΔE00 1.72 · #e9c2a1
- Library CardΔE00 1.763 · #e6c19f
- Masala ChaiΔE00 1.772 · #eeccaa
- Pine GrainΔE00 1.802 · #ebc79e
- Caramel IceΔE00 1.85 · #eec9aa
- Avid ApricotΔE00 1.858 · #f4c69f
- SundownΔE00 1.9 · #f5c99e
- Special PeachΔE00 1.9 · #ebc09b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.