HueComb

Almond

#eddcc8

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

#eddcc8

RGB

237, 220, 200

OKLCh

90.3% 0.033 71.9°

CIELAB (D50)

88.8, 3.7, 12.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 58 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.7; on black, Lc -86.9. 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 8.5 and 8.9 and 19.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.34:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#847462 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

#eddcc8

protanopia

#dedec8 · ΔE00 8.5

deuteranopia

#e1e1c8 · ΔE00 8.9

tritanopia

#e5e576 · ΔE00 19.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIntricate Ivory at ΔE00 0.507: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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