Soufflé
#edd1a8
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
#edd1a8
RGB
237, 209, 168
OKLCh
87.4% 0.062 77.2°
CIELAB (D50)
85.5, 5.7, 24.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 41 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.2; on black, Lc -81.0. 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 10.7 and 10.8 and 21.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c734d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#edd1a8
protanopia
#d4d4a8 · ΔE00 10.7
deuteranopia
#dadaa7 · ΔE00 10.8
tritanopia
#dfdf00 · ΔE00 21.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGood-Looking at ΔE00 0.772: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Good-LookingΔE00 0.772 · #edd2a7
- Amber MoonΔE00 0.782 · #eed1a5
- Weathered CoralΔE00 0.783 · #ead0a9
- Key KeeperΔE00 1.016 · #ecd1a5
- Spice Is NiceΔE00 1.064 · #ebd0a4
- Champagne WishesΔE00 1.073 · #efd4ae
- Fine SandΔE00 1.121 · #f1d5ae
- Harmonious GoldΔE00 1.159 · #eacfa3
- Ceramic BeigeΔE00 1.186 · #edd1ac
- Corn HuskΔE00 1.204 · #f2d6ae
- Rum CustardΔE00 1.228 · #e9cfaa
- SheriffΔE00 1.25 · #ebcfaa
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.