HueComb

Link to the Past

#d2b48c

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

#d2b48c

RGB

210, 180, 140

OKLCh

78.6% 0.064 74.6°

CIELAB (D50)

75.2, 6.9, 24.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 23 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 38% 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 38.0; on black, Lc -64.4. 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 11.7 and 11.8 and 20.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.97:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e724c 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

#d2b48c

protanopia

#b8b88c · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#bdbd8b · ΔE00 11.8

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 20.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAsian Jute at ΔE00 0.813: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Asian JuteΔE00 0.813 · #d4b78f
  • Creamy NougatΔE00 1.251 · #d4b88f
  • Cracker BitzΔE00 1.35 · #d1b088
  • GranivorousΔE00 1.358 · #d0b690
  • Brown HareΔE00 1.371 · #d3b793
  • VermicelliΔE00 1.448 · #d1b791
  • SummerwoodΔE00 1.502 · #d4b28b
  • Sabre ToothΔE00 1.624 · #d4b385
  • Craftsman GoldΔE00 1.637 · #d3b78b
  • Restrained GoldΔE00 1.659 · #d2b084
  • DubloonΔE00 1.662 · #d5b688
  • Camelback MountainΔE00 1.686 · #d3b587

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