Gourmet Honey
#e3cba8
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
#e3cba8
RGB
227, 203, 168
OKLCh
85.3% 0.054 77.2°
CIELAB (D50)
83.1, 4.8, 20.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 42 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 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.0; 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 10.2 and 10.3 and 21.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.37:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.37:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#897353 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
#e3cba8
protanopia
#cecea8 · ΔE00 10.2
deuteranopia
#d2d2a7 · ΔE00 10.3
tritanopia
#d7d700 · ΔE00 21.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isConsommé at ΔE00 0.762: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ConsomméΔE00 0.762 · #e4cdac
- Warm BiscuitsΔE00 0.898 · #e3cdac
- IvoireΔE00 0.962 · #e4ceac
- Marshmallow MistΔE00 1.017 · #e0caaa
- Dried PlantainΔE00 1.05 · #e5cea9
- Pita BreadΔE00 1.08 · #dec8a6
- Caramel MousseΔE00 1.147 · #e5caa4
- Classic TerraΔE00 1.186 · #e4ceae
- Land LightΔE00 1.248 · #dfcaaa
- Rum CustardΔE00 1.267 · #e9cfaa
- Czech BakeryΔE00 1.333 · #dec9a9
- Pure AlmondΔE00 1.424 · #dfc6a5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.