Golden Retriever

#eedec7

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

#eedec7

RGB

238, 222, 199

OKLCh

90.7% 0.035 77.1°

CIELAB (D50)

89.3, 2.9, 13.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 77 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 15.8; on black, Lc -87.9. 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 7.8 and 8.2 and 18.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837560 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#eedec7

protanopia

#e0e0c7 · ΔE00 7.8

deuteranopia

#e3e3c7 · ΔE00 8.2

tritanopia

#e6e67a · ΔE00 18.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilk Teddy at ΔE00 0.747: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Silk TeddyΔE00 0.747 · #f0dfc9
  • Wild OatsΔE00 0.791 · #ecdbc3
  • ScrollΔE00 0.838 · #efe0cb
  • Maybeck MuslinΔE00 0.86 · #eddfc9
  • Pine NutΔE00 0.989 · #eadac2
  • Yellow PageΔE00 0.993 · #eadcc6
  • Silk for the GodsΔE00 1.076 · #ecddc9
  • New Harvest MoonΔE00 1.113 · #eddfc7
  • JakartaΔE00 1.12 · #efddc3
  • So Much FawnΔE00 1.15 · #f1e0cb
  • Pebble CreamΔE00 1.163 · #f3e1ca
  • Golden LotusΔE00 1.191 · #e9dbc4

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.