Cinnamon Sparkle
#9c5736
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9c5736
RGB
156, 87, 54
OKLCh
53.1% 0.103 45.4°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, 27.0, 31.9
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 77.1; on black, Lc -24.7. 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 24.0 and 25.4 and 29.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.48:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.83:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.48:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9c5736
protanopia
#626237 · ΔE00 24.0
deuteranopia
#717132 · ΔE00 25.4
tritanopia
#7f7f00 · ΔE00 29.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeared Earth at ΔE00 0.868: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Seared EarthΔE00 0.868 · #9a5633
- Hello FallΔE00 0.964 · #995533
- PiperΔE00 1.012 · #9d5432
- Ground NutmegΔE00 1.456 · #a05a3b
- Polished BrownΔE00 1.519 · #985538
- EtruscanΔE00 1.57 · #9b583c
- TonichaΔE00 1.752 · #975437
- Tense TerracottaΔE00 1.81 · #a35732
- PennywiseΔE00 1.855 · #a2583a
- Persimmon VarnishΔE00 1.919 · #9f563a
- Taisha RedΔE00 1.964 · #9f5233
- WarmthΔE00 2.029 · #9f552d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.