HueComb

Chess Ivory

#ffe9c5

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

#ffe9c5

RGB

255, 233, 197

OKLCh

94.3% 0.053 80.1°

CIELAB (D50)

93.5, 3.7, 20.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 38 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 9.0; on black, Lc -95.3. 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 9.1 and 9.3 and 22.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887453 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

#ffe9c5

protanopia

#ececc5 · ΔE00 9.1

deuteranopia

#f0f0c4 · ΔE00 9.3

tritanopia

#f4f403 · ΔE00 22.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandle Glow at ΔE00 0.43: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Candle GlowΔE00 0.43 · #ffe8c3
  • Gold of MidasΔE00 0.436 · #ffeac7
  • Tiger TailΔE00 0.572 · #fee9c4
  • Papaya SorbetΔE00 0.589 · #ffeac5
  • Barely PeachΔE00 0.619 · #ffe9c7
  • Natural SheepskinΔE00 0.733 · #fce7c5
  • Vanilla FrostΔE00 0.782 · #fde9c5
  • Autumn ChildΔE00 0.902 · #fbe6c1
  • Spanish CreamΔE00 0.916 · #fce5c0
  • Burnished CreamΔE00 1.025 · #fce5bf
  • FrittataΔE00 1.149 · #feebc8
  • Semolina PuddingΔE00 1.153 · #ffe8c7

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