HueComb

Buttercream

#efe0cd

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

#efe0cd

RGB

239, 224, 205

OKLCh

91.4% 0.030 73.9°

CIELAB (D50)

90.0, 3.0, 11.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 83 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.6; on black, Lc -89.2. 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 7.5 and 7.9 and 17.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827564 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

#efe0cd

protanopia

#e2e2cd · ΔE00 7.5

deuteranopia

#e5e5cd · ΔE00 7.9

tritanopia

#e8e88a · ΔE00 17.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMushroom White at ΔE00 0.443: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mushroom WhiteΔE00 0.443 · #f0e1cd
  • Berkshire LaceΔE00 0.466 · #f0e1cf
  • Coconut Cream PieΔE00 0.608 · #f0e2cf
  • Victorian LaceΔE00 0.728 · #efe1cd
  • Intricate IvoryΔE00 0.771 · #edddca
  • ScrollΔE00 0.782 · #efe0cb
  • Silk for the GodsΔE00 0.791 · #ecddc9
  • Chamois ClothΔE00 0.848 · #f0e1d0
  • Southwestern SandΔE00 0.863 · #ede0ce
  • Pearled IvoryΔE00 0.911 · #f0dfcc
  • So Much FawnΔE00 0.935 · #f1e0cb
  • LambskinΔE00 0.961 · #ebdcca

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