Caramel Dream
#b8623b
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b8623b
RGB
184, 98, 59
OKLCh
58.9% 0.123 44.1°
CIELAB (D50)
51.5, 33.1, 37.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.6; on black, Lc -32.1. 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 27.3 and 29.1 and 33.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.33:1 — large text only
Black text
4.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b55f38 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
#b8623b
protanopia
#70703c · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#838335 · ΔE00 29.1
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 33.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Reddish Orange at ΔE00 1.325: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Reddish OrangeΔE00 1.325 · #bb603c
- Smoke TreeΔE00 1.339 · #bb5f34
- Husky OrangeΔE00 1.46 · #bb613e
- Gold Varnish BrownΔE00 1.471 · #b95e33
- Boho CopperΔE00 1.579 · #b96033
- Dirt TrackΔE00 2.006 · #bb6644
- Pumpkin DrizzleΔE00 2.24 · #b96846
- Spiced NutΔE00 2.489 · #bc693e
- ReynardΔE00 2.65 · #b46848
- KhardicΔE00 2.665 · #b16840
- Clay PotΔE00 2.689 · #c3663f
- Copper-Metal RedΔE00 2.741 · #ad6342
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.