HueComb

Caramel Coating

#bb7711

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bb7711

RGB

187, 119, 17

OKLCh

62.7% 0.132 68.9°

CIELAB (D50)

56.4, 22.4, 59.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.7; on black, Lc -38.0. 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 20.7 and 21.0 and 22.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.65:1 — large text only

Black text

5.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a86900 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bb7711

protanopia

#818114 · ΔE00 20.7

deuteranopia

#8f8f00 · ΔE00 21.0

tritanopia

#9d9d00 · ΔE00 22.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCassandra’s Curse at ΔE00 1.07: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Cassandra’s CurseΔE00 1.07 · #bb7700
  • Sweet Mulled CiderΔE00 1.713 · #b57312
  • Milvus Milvus OrangeΔE00 1.86 · #bb7722
  • Philippine GoldΔE00 2.64 · #b17304
  • Weapon BronzeΔE00 2.662 · #b47b27
  • Pirate GoldΔE00 2.711 · #ba782a
  • MandalayΔE00 3.008 · #b57b2e
  • Guo Tie DumplingΔE00 3.011 · #bd7e08
  • Toffee SauceΔE00 3.178 · #b17426
  • Dirty OrangeΔE00 3.235 · #c87606
  • Fireside ChatΔE00 3.276 · #b87427
  • Hamtaro BrownΔE00 3.282 · #b07426

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