HueComb

Floating Feather

#e9d8c2

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

#e9d8c2

RGB

233, 216, 194

OKLCh

89.0% 0.035 74.4°

CIELAB (D50)

87.3, 3.4, 13.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 65 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 only 38% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.1; on black, Lc -84.4. 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 8.4 and 8.8 and 19.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.39:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847461 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

#e9d8c2

protanopia

#dadac2 · ΔE00 8.4

deuteranopia

#ddddc2 · ΔE00 8.8

tritanopia

#e1e16d · 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 isAntique Parchment at ΔE00 0.454: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Antique ParchmentΔE00 0.454 · #ead8c1
  • Laguna BeachΔE00 0.497 · #e9d7c0
  • Lotus PodΔE00 0.528 · #e7d7c2
  • BubblyΔE00 0.704 · #ead8c0
  • Oatmeal CookieΔE00 0.853 · #eadac6
  • Gentle SlumberΔE00 0.921 · #e5d4be
  • Wild OatsΔE00 0.989 · #ecdbc3
  • Bread CrumbΔE00 1.067 · #e4d4be
  • Pine NutΔE00 1.081 · #eadac2
  • Almendra TostadaΔE00 1.129 · #e8d6bd
  • FigurineΔE00 1.131 · #e4d5c0
  • Fine White SandΔE00 1.18 · #e4d4c0

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