HueComb

Attic Linen

#ccbca9

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

#ccbca9

RGB

204, 188, 169

OKLCh

80.3% 0.032 72.1°

CIELAB (D50)

77.2, 3.5, 11.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 34 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 19% 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 34.9; on black, Lc -67.6. 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 8.3 and 8.7 and 19.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.85:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837463 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

#ccbca9

protanopia

#bebea9 · ΔE00 8.3

deuteranopia

#c1c1a9 · ΔE00 8.7

tritanopia

#c4c456 · ΔE00 19.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDhurrie Beige at ΔE00 0.649: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Dhurrie BeigeΔE00 0.649 · #cabaa8
  • MalabarΔE00 0.919 · #cfbea9
  • Dinosaur EggΔE00 0.96 · #cabaa9
  • BirchwoodΔE00 0.972 · #ccbeac
  • Nantucket DuneΔE00 1.087 · #d0bfaa
  • Smoke DragonΔE00 1.108 · #ccbbaa
  • Wise OwlΔE00 1.202 · #cdbba5
  • Mesa TumbleweedΔE00 1.295 · #cdbdad
  • Sail GreyΔE00 1.325 · #cabaa4
  • Sandy ToesΔE00 1.337 · #c7b8a4
  • OatbranΔE00 1.385 · #c8b9a4
  • Soft StonesΔE00 1.492 · #c6b8a5

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