Durian White
#e6d0ab
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
#e6d0ab
RGB
230, 208, 171
OKLCh
86.7% 0.055 80.7°
CIELAB (D50)
84.6, 3.8, 21.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 44 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 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.5; on black, Lc -79.7. 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 9.1 and 9.2 and 21.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.50:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#887452 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
#e6d0ab
protanopia
#d3d3ab · ΔE00 9.1
deuteranopia
#d7d7aa · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#dbdb00 · ΔE00 21.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDried Plantain at ΔE00 0.573: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dried PlantainΔE00 0.573 · #e5cea9
- Tuscan BreadΔE00 0.573 · #e7d2ad
- ChampagneΔE00 0.632 · #e9d2ac
- Light BlondΔE00 0.782 · #e8d3af
- Melt With YouΔE00 0.795 · #e3cfab
- The Golden StateΔE00 1.002 · #e9d2af
- IvoireΔE00 1.016 · #e4ceac
- GivryΔE00 1.038 · #ebd4ae
- Banana CrepeΔE00 1.094 · #e7d3ad
- Cream CakeΔE00 1.129 · #e3d0ad
- HearthΔE00 1.162 · #e1cca6
- Bisque TanΔE00 1.274 · #e5d2b0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.