Pheasant
#c17c54
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c17c54
RGB
193, 124, 84
OKLCh
65.0% 0.102 50.3°
CIELAB (D50)
58.8, 24.6, 33.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.7; on black, Lc -41.0. 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 22.9 and 24.1 and 29.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.34:1 — large text only
Black text
6.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a9663e 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
#c17c54
protanopia
#868655 · ΔE00 22.9
deuteranopia
#959550 · ΔE00 24.1
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 29.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRakuda Brown at ΔE00 1.254: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rakuda BrownΔE00 1.254 · #bf794e
- Rich CopperΔE00 1.265 · #bf7d52
- Chivalry CopperΔE00 1.318 · #bf784e
- Cattle DriveΔE00 1.683 · #bb7b51
- Brown ClayΔE00 1.708 · #c37c59
- SundialΔE00 1.805 · #c0805d
- Monarch MigrationΔE00 1.859 · #bf764c
- Chai SpiceΔE00 1.995 · #bd7c4f
- Japanese Wax TreeΔE00 2.313 · #b77b57
- Fall FoliageΔE00 2.374 · #c28359
- Pastry ShellΔE00 2.484 · #b77d58
- Fuegan OrangeΔE00 2.488 · #c77e4d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.