HueComb

Mellow Marrow

#e8c2b4

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

#e8c2b4

RGB

232, 194, 180

OKLCh

84.3% 0.048 41.2°

CIELAB (D50)

81.5, 12.4, 12.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.4; on black, Lc -74.5. 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 17.3 and 18.7 and 31.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#916f62 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

#e8c2b4

protanopia

#c7c7b4 · ΔE00 17.3

deuteranopia

#ceceb3 · ΔE00 18.7

tritanopia

#d6d600 · ΔE00 31.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAntoinette Pink at ΔE00 0.309: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Antoinette PinkΔE00 0.309 · #e7c2b4
  • Calico RoseΔE00 0.708 · #e5c1b3
  • AdorableΔE00 1.085 · #e3beb0
  • Sunwashed BrickΔE00 1.332 · #e3c1b3
  • Fatty SashimiΔE00 1.386 · #eec4b4
  • Brilliant BeigeΔE00 1.516 · #efc5b5
  • Spiced OrangeΔE00 1.682 · #edc7b6
  • Baked HamΔE00 1.694 · #eec8bc
  • Renaissance FrescoΔE00 1.904 · #ebc8b8
  • Muddy RoseΔE00 1.918 · #e2beb4
  • ZinnwalditeΔE00 1.928 · #ebc2af
  • Retro PeachΔE00 2.012 · #e7c0ad

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