HueComb

Tatami

#deccaf

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

#deccaf

RGB

222, 204, 175

OKLCh

85.3% 0.044 79.8°

CIELAB (D50)

83.0, 3.1, 16.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 54 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 31% 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 26.1; on black, Lc -77.0. 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 8.4 and 8.6 and 20.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.57:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85755a 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

#deccaf

protanopia

#ceceaf · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#d1d1ae · ΔE00 8.6

tritanopia

#d5d53e · ΔE00 20.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFossil White at ΔE00 0.409: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Fossil WhiteΔE00 0.409 · #ddcbaf
  • UnforgettableΔE00 0.663 · #ddccb1
  • Almond SilkΔE00 0.717 · #e1cfb2
  • Muslin TintΔE00 0.719 · #e0cdb1
  • Pretty PastryΔE00 0.747 · #dfcdb2
  • SundewΔE00 0.908 · #e1cdae
  • Woollen SoxΔE00 0.927 · #dcc9ad
  • Lovely BluffΔE00 0.954 · #e2d0b3
  • SandblastΔE00 0.958 · #decbab
  • Concord BuffΔE00 0.963 · #e2ceb0
  • Cameo RoleΔE00 1.034 · #ddcaaf
  • Assateague SandΔE00 1.097 · #e1d0b2

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