HueComb

Oatmeal Cookie

#eadac6

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

#eadac6

RGB

234, 218, 198

OKLCh

89.6% 0.032 73.5°

CIELAB (D50)

88.0, 3.3, 12.0

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 18.0; on black, Lc -85.5. 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 8.0 and 8.4 and 18.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.34:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.34:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837563 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

#eadac6

protanopia

#dcdcc6 · ΔE00 8.0

deuteranopia

#dfdfc6 · ΔE00 8.4

tritanopia

#e2e27b · ΔE00 18.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVanilla Mocha at ΔE00 0.466: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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