Crepe

#d4bc94

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#d4bc94

RGB

212, 188, 148

OKLCh

80.6% 0.060 80.3°

CIELAB (D50)

77.6, 4.5, 23.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 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 36% 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 34.5; on black, Lc -68.1. 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 9.6 and 9.6 and 19.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.84:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.42:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.42:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a744e 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

#d4bc94

protanopia

#bfbf94 · ΔE00 9.6

deuteranopia

#c3c393 · ΔE00 9.6

tritanopia

#c8c800 · ΔE00 19.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPebble Path at ΔE00 0.369: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pebble PathΔE00 0.369 · #d5bc94
  • ThermosΔE00 0.636 · #d2bb95
  • Stacked LimestoneΔE00 0.815 · #d1b992
  • Smooth BeechΔE00 0.91 · #d3bb96
  • Bowman BeigeΔE00 0.954 · #d7bd92
  • Grain MillΔE00 1.283 · #d8c095
  • GoldfrappΔE00 1.395 · #ceb790
  • Palmetto BluffΔE00 1.411 · #ceb993
  • Curious CollectionΔE00 1.428 · #d2bb98
  • October HarvestΔE00 1.445 · #d1bb98
  • VermicelliΔE00 1.594 · #d1b791
  • Flier LieΔE00 1.594 · #cdb891

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