HueComb

Warm Neutral

#c1b19d

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

#c1b19d

RGB

193, 177, 157

OKLCh

76.8% 0.033 73.4°

CIELAB (D50)

73.2, 3.5, 12.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 31 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 only 20% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.9; on black, Lc -61.4. 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 8.3 and 8.7 and 20.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.09:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837462 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c1b19d

protanopia

#b3b39d · ΔE00 8.3

deuteranopia

#b6b69d · ΔE00 8.7

tritanopia

#b9b943 · ΔE00 20.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTimber Dust at ΔE00 0.275: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Timber DustΔE00 0.275 · #c0b09c
  • Canyon ViewΔE00 0.546 · #c3b39f
  • Studio BeigeΔE00 1.177 · #c1b2a1
  • Barcelona BeigeΔE00 1.211 · #c4b39c
  • SandrockΔE00 1.416 · #c4b19a
  • Frontier FortΔE00 1.465 · #c3b19f
  • Pavilion BeigeΔE00 1.546 · #c5b6a4
  • Pigeon GreyΔE00 1.579 · #c1b4a0
  • EsotericΔE00 1.581 · #c4b5a4
  • Renwick BeigeΔE00 1.582 · #c3b09d
  • Balanced BeigeΔE00 1.588 · #c0b2a2
  • Winter FeatherΔE00 1.639 · #bcaf9e

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