Cashmere Clay
#cda291
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cda291
RGB
205, 162, 145
OKLCh
74.7% 0.057 42.6°
CIELAB (D50)
70.3, 14.6, 15.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 45.1; on black, Lc -57.0. 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 19.3 and 20.3 and 30.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966e5e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cda291
protanopia
#a8a891 · ΔE00 19.3
deuteranopia
#b0b090 · ΔE00 20.3
tritanopia
#b9b900 · ΔE00 30.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShiny Kettle at ΔE00 0.578: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Shiny KettleΔE00 0.578 · #cea190
- The BoulevardΔE00 0.74 · #d0a492
- Sombrero TanΔE00 1.069 · #cba391
- Amber GreyΔE00 1.132 · #d0a592
- Tiffany RoseΔE00 1.243 · #d2a694
- ArtefactΔE00 1.495 · #ca9d8d
- Pink GingerΔE00 1.609 · #cfa798
- Cabbage RoseΔE00 1.995 · #c59f91
- MuskΔE00 2.037 · #cca195
- Whistler RoseΔE00 2.068 · #c49e8f
- Autumn MaltΔE00 2.107 · #cea48e
- Adobe GlowΔE00 2.15 · #c99f93
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.