Hummus
#eecc99
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
#eecc99
RGB
238, 204, 153
OKLCh
86.2% 0.076 77.5°
CIELAB (D50)
84.1, 7.2, 30.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 41 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.5; on black, Lc -78.6. 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 11.5 and 11.6 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#917241 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
#eecc99
protanopia
#d0d099 · ΔE00 11.5
deuteranopia
#d7d798 · ΔE00 11.6
tritanopia
#dede00 · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKnightley Straw at ΔE00 0.311: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Knightley StrawΔE00 0.311 · #edcc99
- BeignetΔE00 0.651 · #eccc9b
- OktoberfestΔE00 0.652 · #efcb96
- Ambitious AmberΔE00 0.852 · #f0cb97
- Filtered MoonΔE00 0.88 · #ecca9a
- Pumpkin Pie Oh My!ΔE00 0.902 · #edc994
- Bright CloveΔE00 0.948 · #efcf9b
- Peace YellowΔE00 1.07 · #eecf9e
- Peachy SkinΔE00 1.203 · #f0cfa0
- Vespa YellowΔE00 1.212 · #f3d19f
- Hazy DayΔE00 1.217 · #f2cc99
- Scalloped OakΔE00 1.254 · #f2d1a0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.