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#d2ae84

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

#d2ae84

RGB

210, 174, 132

OKLCh

77.3% 0.070 70.8°

CIELAB (D50)

73.6, 9.3, 26.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

20 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 40.5; on black, Lc -61.8. 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 13.4 and 13.5 and 21.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.07:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#927148 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

#d2ae84

protanopia

#b3b384 · ΔE00 13.4

deuteranopia

#b9b983 · ΔE00 13.5

tritanopia

#c1c100 · ΔE00 21.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaramel Cloud at ΔE00 0.454: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Caramel CloudΔE00 0.454 · #d4af85
Toast and ButterΔE00 0.539 · #d2ad84
CalicoΔE00 0.961 · #d5b185
Cracker BitzΔE00 0.999 · #d1b088
Buttery LeatherΔE00 1.035 · #d4b185
Restrained GoldΔE00 1.07 · #d2b084
SummerwoodΔE00 1.332 · #d4b28b
Cheddar BiscuitΔE00 1.35 · #d2ad87
Whole GrainΔE00 1.533 · #d4ae7e
Santa Fe TanΔE00 1.554 · #d5ad85
DaVanzo BeigeΔE00 1.558 · #ccac86
Castell HarlechΔE00 1.582 · #cfaf83

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