HueComb

Macadamia

#e1ccaf

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

#e1ccaf

RGB

225, 204, 175

OKLCh

85.5% 0.045 75.9°

CIELAB (D50)

83.3, 4.3, 17.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 49 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 25.7; on black, Lc -77.4. 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 9.7 and 10.0 and 22.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#877459 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

#e1ccaf

protanopia

#cfcfaf · ΔE00 9.7

deuteranopia

#d2d2ae · ΔE00 10.0

tritanopia

#d7d700 · ΔE00 22.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrimini Mushroom at ΔE00 0.434: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Crimini MushroomΔE00 0.434 · #e2cdb1
  • Concord BuffΔE00 0.76 · #e2ceb0
  • Muslin TintΔE00 0.794 · #e0cdb1
  • SundewΔE00 0.939 · #e1cdae
  • Cameo RoleΔE00 1.014 · #ddcaaf
  • Classic TerraΔE00 1.039 · #e4ceae
  • Marshmallow MistΔE00 1.048 · #e0caaa
  • Toledo CuoioΔE00 1.095 · #decbb1
  • Woollen SoxΔE00 1.118 · #dcc9ad
  • Blonde WoolΔE00 1.139 · #e5d0b1
  • Land LightΔE00 1.144 · #dfcaaa
  • Sunday DriveΔE00 1.162 · #dcc9ae

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