HueComb

Egghead

#e6c7a2

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

#e6c7a2

RGB

230, 199, 162

OKLCh

84.7% 0.060 71.8°

CIELAB (D50)

82.2, 7.3, 22.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.3; on black, Lc -75.6. 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 12.4 and 12.5 and 22.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.06:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.06:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e724f 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

#e6c7a2

protanopia

#cbcba2 · ΔE00 12.4

deuteranopia

#d1d1a1 · ΔE00 12.5

tritanopia

#d7d700 · ΔE00 22.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOctober Bounty at ΔE00 0.789: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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