HueComb

Baba Ganoush

#eebb88

An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#eebb88

RGB

238, 187, 136

OKLCh

82.6% 0.089 66.1°

CIELAB (D50)

79.7, 14.3, 33.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.4; on black, Lc -71.3. 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 16.6 and 17.1 and 24.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.74:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.10:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.10:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9c6d3c 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

#eebb88

protanopia

#c2c288 · ΔE00 16.6

deuteranopia

#cccc86 · ΔE00 17.1

tritanopia

#d6d600 · ΔE00 24.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Cream at ΔE00 0.608: 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.