Cane Sugar
#e3b982
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e3b982
RGB
227, 185, 130
OKLCh
81.0% 0.086 73.6°
CIELAB (D50)
78.0, 10.4, 33.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 21 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.0; on black, Lc -68.6. 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 13.7 and 14.1 and 20.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.53:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.53:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#96703a 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
#e3b982
protanopia
#bebe82 · ΔE00 13.7
deuteranopia
#c7c780 · ΔE00 14.1
tritanopia
#cfcf00 · ΔE00 20.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeehive at ΔE00 0.556: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BeehiveΔE00 0.556 · #e1b781
- Honey GoldΔE00 1.005 · #e1b67c
- Dune ViewΔE00 1.119 · #e2bb88
- Regency CreamΔE00 1.171 · #e1bb87
- AmbitiousΔE00 1.266 · #dfb77d
- JerboaΔE00 1.274 · #dfb886
- Bread PuddingΔE00 1.292 · #e6bc89
- Fulgurite CopperΔE00 1.32 · #e6b77e
- CorvetteΔE00 1.389 · #e9ba81
- Fragrant CorianderΔE00 1.409 · #eabc83
- Bourbon SpiceΔE00 1.411 · #e6be8a
- Cellini GoldΔE00 1.44 · #ddb582
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.