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.
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
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.