Sugar Cookie Crust

#e8cfb1

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

#e8cfb1

RGB

232, 207, 177

OKLCh

86.8% 0.049 72.2°

CIELAB (D50)

84.7, 5.7, 18.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

31 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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.4; 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 11.3 and 11.5 and 23.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a7358 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

#e8cfb1

protanopia

#d2d2b1 · ΔE00 11.3

deuteranopia

#d7d7b0 · ΔE00 11.5

tritanopia

#dcdc00 · ΔE00 23.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhite Bean Hummus at ΔE00 0.436: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

White Bean HummusΔE00 0.436 · #e8d0b2
Fuzzy ScruffΔE00 0.841 · #ecd2b4
Jacobean LaceΔE00 0.967 · #e4ccb0
Caen StoneΔE00 1.1 · #ecd0b1
Shortbread CookieΔE00 1.145 · #eaceb0
ChaiΔE00 1.162 · #ebcfae
Crescent CreamΔE00 1.195 · #edd1b1
Interactive CreamΔE00 1.285 · #e4caad
Sugar ShackΔE00 1.419 · #eed5b6
Beachy KeenΔE00 1.433 · #e6d0b6
Crimini MushroomΔE00 1.598 · #e2cdb1
ConsomméΔE00 1.627 · #e4cdac

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