HueComb

Cream and Sugar

#ddcfb9

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

#ddcfb9

RGB

221, 207, 185

OKLCh

86.0% 0.034 79.2°

CIELAB (D50)

83.8, 2.4, 12.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 64 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 25% 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 24.7; on black, Lc -78.5. 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 7.0 and 7.3 and 16.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827561 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

#ddcfb9

protanopia

#d1d1b9 · ΔE00 7.0

deuteranopia

#d3d3b9 · ΔE00 7.3

tritanopia

#d6d678 · ΔE00 16.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClambake at ΔE00 0.699: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • ClambakeΔE00 0.699 · #e0d1bb
  • Creamy CappuccinoΔE00 0.839 · #dbccb5
  • Light RaffiaΔE00 0.889 · #dacdb6
  • Sandstone PaletteΔE00 0.902 · #d9ccb6
  • Ostrich EggΔE00 0.903 · #dcd0bb
  • Magic SailΔE00 0.999 · #e0d2ba
  • Banded TulipΔE00 1.014 · #e0d3bd
  • Cream in My CoffeeΔE00 1.017 · #dfd2be
  • Studio ClayΔE00 1.037 · #d9ccb8
  • Dainty LaceΔE00 1.046 · #decfbb
  • Palest SatinΔE00 1.115 · #dccdb9
  • Brown MouseΔE00 1.116 · #d8cbb5

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