Caramel Mousse
#e5caa4
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
#e5caa4
RGB
229, 202, 164
OKLCh
85.2% 0.059 76.2°
CIELAB (D50)
82.9, 5.7, 22.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 24 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 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.2; on black, Lc -76.8. 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 10.9 and 10.9 and 21.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8b7350 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
#e5caa4
protanopia
#cdcda4 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#d2d2a3 · ΔE00 10.9
tritanopia
#d8d800 · ΔE00 21.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHagar Shores at ΔE00 0.72: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hagar ShoresΔE00 0.72 · #e6c9a3
- Biltmore BuffΔE00 0.859 · #e3c9a1
- Gentle FawnΔE00 0.882 · #e6c9a4
- Gourmet HoneyΔE00 1.147 · #e3cba8
- Rum CustardΔE00 1.218 · #e9cfaa
- Riviera SandΔE00 1.293 · #dfc6a0
- Fortune CookieΔE00 1.33 · #e0c5a1
- Jasper CaneΔE00 1.365 · #e7c89f
- SheriffΔE00 1.369 · #ebcfaa
- Weathered CoralΔE00 1.465 · #ead0a9
- Faint FawnΔE00 1.471 · #e2c59c
- Dried PlantainΔE00 1.595 · #e5cea9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.