HueComb

Molten Gold

#e8c690

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

#e8c690

RGB

232, 198, 144

OKLCh

84.3% 0.080 78.9°

CIELAB (D50)

81.9, 7.0, 31.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 30 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.9; on black, Lc -75.0. 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 11.3 and 11.4 and 19.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.63:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#91723e 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

#e8c690

protanopia

#caca90 · ΔE00 11.3

deuteranopia

#d1d18f · ΔE00 11.4

tritanopia

#d8d800 · ΔE00 19.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNorman Shaw Goldspar at ΔE00 0.469: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Norman Shaw GoldsparΔE00 0.469 · #e9c68e
  • Venice SquareΔE00 0.547 · #e6c591
  • Cosy CoverΔE00 0.894 · #e4c38f
  • Bungalow MapleΔE00 0.953 · #e4c590
  • White RaisinΔE00 0.996 · #e5c28b
  • Gold HeartedΔE00 1.066 · #e6c28c
  • Pumpkin Pie Oh My!ΔE00 1.11 · #edc994
  • Oberon on the BeachΔE00 1.197 · #e7c492
  • LiraΔE00 1.216 · #e2c28d
  • Golden WestΔE00 1.231 · #e9ca94
  • BirdseedΔE00 1.234 · #e2c28e
  • Chestnut DressingΔE00 1.396 · #ebc795

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