Dust Storm
#e7d3b7
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
#e7d3b7
RGB
231, 211, 183
OKLCh
87.6% 0.043 76.3°
CIELAB (D50)
85.7, 3.9, 16.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 50 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 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.8; on black, Lc -81.5. 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 9.4 and 9.6 and 22.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#86745b 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
#e7d3b7
protanopia
#d5d5b7 · ΔE00 9.4
deuteranopia
#d9d9b6 · ΔE00 9.6
tritanopia
#dddd2f · ΔE00 22.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAebleskiver at ΔE00 0.65: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AebleskiverΔE00 0.65 · #e6d3b6
- Nevada SandΔE00 0.66 · #ead5b9
- Almond BrittleΔE00 0.871 · #e5d3b9
- Sand PearlΔE00 0.95 · #e7d4b6
- Sugared PearsΔE00 0.983 · #ebd5b7
- RutabagaΔE00 1.041 · #ead5b6
- Cake CrumbsΔE00 1.115 · #e8d4bb
- Blonde WoolΔE00 1.177 · #e5d0b1
- Writer’s ParchmentΔE00 1.207 · #e9d6bd
- Warm ButtercreamΔE00 1.254 · #e6d5ba
- Almendra TostadaΔE00 1.257 · #e8d6bd
- Minimum BeigeΔE00 1.316 · #e8d3ba
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.