Sand Dune

#e3d2c0

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

#e3d2c0

RGB

227, 210, 192

OKLCh

87.3% 0.031 69.0°

CIELAB (D50)

85.2, 3.9, 11.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

36 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 32% 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 22.4; on black, Lc -80.8. 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 8.7 and 9.1 and 20.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.25:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.25:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847464 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

#e3d2c0

protanopia

#d4d4c0 · ΔE00 8.7

deuteranopia

#d7d7c0 · ΔE00 9.1

tritanopia

#dbdb6e · 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 isOyster at ΔE00 1.079: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

OysterΔE00 1.079 · #e3d3bf
Shetland LaceΔE00 1.099 · #dfd0c0
Autumn BlushΔE00 1.115 · #e4d1c0
Fine White SandΔE00 1.135 · #e4d4c0
Ice Cream ConeΔE00 1.165 · #e3d0bf
Bonnie Dune BeachΔE00 1.19 · #e4d1bc
Simply Subtle PinkΔE00 1.21 · #e6d2bf
Fragile BeautyΔE00 1.227 · #e7d7c6
Silver Thistle BeigeΔE00 1.336 · #e7d5c5
Honey Lime ChickenΔE00 1.464 · #ddccbb
Maple PecanΔE00 1.495 · #e3d1bb
Brig O’doonΔE00 1.533 · #ddcfbf

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