HueComb

Pretty Pastry

#dfcdb2

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

#dfcdb2

RGB

223, 205, 178

OKLCh

85.6% 0.042 78.1°

CIELAB (D50)

83.4, 3.3, 15.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 59 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 25.4; on black, Lc -77.6. 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 8.6 and 8.9 and 20.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.55:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.51:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.51:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#85745c 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

#dfcdb2

protanopia

#cfcfb2 · ΔE00 8.6

deuteranopia

#d2d2b1 · ΔE00 8.9

tritanopia

#d6d646 · ΔE00 20.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMuslin Tint at ΔE00 0.439: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Muslin TintΔE00 0.439 · #e0cdb1
  • UnforgettableΔE00 0.528 · #ddccb1
  • Fossil WhiteΔE00 0.61 · #ddcbaf
  • Inside PassageΔE00 0.633 · #e0cfb5
  • TatamiΔE00 0.747 · #deccaf
  • Toledo CuoioΔE00 0.785 · #decbb1
  • Cameo RoleΔE00 0.804 · #ddcaaf
  • Almond SilkΔE00 0.821 · #e1cfb2
  • CochiseΔE00 0.827 · #ddcdb3
  • Lovely BluffΔE00 0.968 · #e2d0b3
  • Sunday DriveΔE00 1.017 · #dcc9ae
  • Woollen SoxΔE00 1.035 · #dcc9ad

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