HueComb

Oyster

#e3d3bf

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

#e3d3bf

RGB

227, 211, 191

OKLCh

87.5% 0.032 73.5°

CIELAB (D50)

85.5, 3.3, 12.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 48 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 22.1; on black, Lc -81.2. 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 8.1 and 8.5 and 18.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.34:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.34:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837562 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

#e3d3bf

protanopia

#d5d5bf · ΔE00 8.1

deuteranopia

#d8d8bf · ΔE00 8.5

tritanopia

#dbdb72 · ΔE00 18.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFine White Sand at ΔE00 0.233: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Fine White SandΔE00 0.233 · #e4d4c0
  • Gentle SlumberΔE00 0.768 · #e5d4be
  • Bread CrumbΔE00 0.801 · #e4d4be
  • FigurineΔE00 0.814 · #e4d5c0
  • Lotus PodΔE00 0.988 · #e7d7c2
  • Maple PecanΔE00 1.014 · #e3d1bb
  • Sand DuneΔE00 1.079 · #e3d2c0
  • Dainty LaceΔE00 1.091 · #decfbb
  • Baked SconeΔE00 1.15 · #e5d3bc
  • Antique BuffΔE00 1.166 · #e4d2bb
  • ClambakeΔE00 1.181 · #e0d1bb
  • Soft DoeskinΔE00 1.184 · #e0cfb9

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