Cardboard
#c19a6c
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c19a6c
RGB
193, 154, 108
OKLCh
71.2% 0.077 70.7°
CIELAB (D50)
66.5, 10.6, 29.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.6; on black, Lc -51.4. 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 14.0 and 14.2 and 20.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#957043 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
#c19a6c
protanopia
#9f9f6c · ΔE00 14.0
deuteranopia
#a7a76a · ΔE00 14.2
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 20.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWobbegong Brown at ΔE00 0.271: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wobbegong BrownΔE00 0.271 · #c19a6b
- TaffyΔE00 0.81 · #c39b6a
- ChaletΔE00 1.049 · #c29867
- Amber AutumnΔE00 1.329 · #c69c6a
- Hazed NutsΔE00 1.549 · #c39e6d
- Edgy GreenΔE00 1.653 · #bf9a67
- Welcome HomeΔE00 1.672 · #c09c6a
- Mannered GoldΔE00 1.683 · #c19763
- Etruscan BronzeΔE00 1.698 · #bb986f
- Donegal TweedΔE00 1.76 · #c19964
- GingersnapΔE00 1.826 · #c79e73
- Light BronzerΔE00 1.878 · #bc9468
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.