Toast and Butter
#d2ad84
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
#d2ad84
RGB
210, 173, 132
OKLCh
77.1% 0.070 69.4°
CIELAB (D50)
73.3, 9.8, 26.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.8; on black, Lc -61.5. 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 13.8 and 13.9 and 21.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.09:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#937049 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
#d2ad84
protanopia
#b2b284 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#b9b983 · ΔE00 13.9
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 21.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSheaf at ΔE00 0.539: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SheafΔE00 0.539 · #d2ae84
- Caramel CloudΔE00 0.601 · #d4af85
- Cheddar BiscuitΔE00 0.9 · #d2ad87
- Santa Fe TanΔE00 1.086 · #d5ad85
- Cracker BitzΔE00 1.336 · #d1b088
- CalicoΔE00 1.408 · #d5b185
- SummerwoodΔE00 1.509 · #d4b28b
- Buttery LeatherΔE00 1.54 · #d4b185
- DaVanzo BeigeΔE00 1.604 · #ccac86
- Restrained GoldΔE00 1.608 · #d2b084
- Paper BrownΔE00 1.71 · #d7ac7f
- SheepskinΔE00 1.805 · #d9b28b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.