HueComb

Baker’s Bread

#d0b393

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

#d0b393

RGB

208, 179, 147

OKLCh

78.4% 0.055 69.7°

CIELAB (D50)

74.9, 7.3, 20.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 32% 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 38.5; on black, Lc -63.9. 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 12.7 and 12.8 and 22.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.99:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d7254 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

#d0b393

protanopia

#b7b793 · ΔE00 12.7

deuteranopia

#bcbc92 · ΔE00 12.8

tritanopia

#c2c200 · 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 isSlopes at ΔE00 1: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • SlopesΔE00 1 · #d2b698
  • MoraineΔE00 1.183 · #ceb391
  • Hiker’s DelightΔE00 1.193 · #d2b395
  • Ligonier TanΔE00 1.333 · #d2b18f
  • Peach PetalsΔE00 1.34 · #d3b699
  • Crushed NutmegΔE00 1.36 · #d6b694
  • Crowned OneΔE00 1.364 · #d4b597
  • Sugar Rush Peach PepperΔE00 1.452 · #cfb599
  • Dover PlainsΔE00 1.459 · #ccaf92
  • Crème de CaramelΔE00 1.485 · #d4b38f
  • My ChaiΔE00 1.508 · #d3b395
  • Dusty GoldΔE00 1.674 · #d7b999

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