HueComb

Smoke Dragon

#ccbbaa

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

#ccbbaa

RGB

204, 187, 170

OKLCh

80.2% 0.030 67.4°

CIELAB (D50)

77.0, 4.2, 10.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 25 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 only 20% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.3; on black, Lc -67.3. 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 8.9 and 9.4 and 21.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.87:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847464 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

#ccbbaa

protanopia

#bdbdaa · ΔE00 8.9

deuteranopia

#c0c0aa · ΔE00 9.4

tritanopia

#c4c450 · ΔE00 21.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDinosaur Egg at ΔE00 0.555: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Dinosaur EggΔE00 0.555 · #cabaa9
  • Mesa TumbleweedΔE00 0.69 · #cdbdad
  • Dhurrie BeigeΔE00 0.804 · #cabaa8
  • Attic LinenΔE00 1.108 · #ccbca9
  • Smoke GreyΔE00 1.23 · #cebaa8
  • PankoΔE00 1.283 · #cdb9a7
  • MooloolabaΔE00 1.309 · #c7b8a9
  • Dust BunnyΔE00 1.443 · #c8b6a6
  • Windrift BeigeΔE00 1.572 · #cebcae
  • Bona Fide BeigeΔE00 1.584 · #cbb9ab
  • Steveareno BeigeΔE00 1.703 · #c5b5a4
  • Chinchilla ChenilleΔE00 1.709 · #d0bba7

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