Cafe Latte
#d6c6b4
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
#d6c6b4
RGB
214, 198, 180
OKLCh
83.5% 0.030 70.7°
CIELAB (D50)
80.9, 3.6, 11.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 32 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 23% 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 29.3; on black, Lc -73.5. 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 8.3 and 8.7 and 19.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.60:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.60:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837464 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
#d6c6b4
protanopia
#c8c8b4 · ΔE00 8.3
deuteranopia
#cbcbb4 · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#cece66 · ΔE00 19.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPastel Sand at ΔE00 0.465: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pastel SandΔE00 0.465 · #d5c6b4
- Whisper PinkΔE00 0.562 · #d4c5b4
- Beige ChalkΔE00 0.748 · #d6c5b4
- Dry CreekΔE00 0.791 · #d8c7b6
- Ivory RidgeΔE00 0.863 · #d9c9b8
- Brazilian SandΔE00 0.907 · #d8c6b4
- Clay PipeΔE00 0.916 · #d9c8b7
- Avenue TanΔE00 0.999 · #d2c2b0
- SandshellΔE00 1.075 · #d6c8b8
- Manilla RopeΔE00 1.083 · #dac9b8
- Wisp of CocoaΔE00 1.27 · #d9c6b2
- Bongo DrumΔE00 1.276 · #d2c2b2
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.