Chalet
#c29867
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c29867
RGB
194, 152, 103
OKLCh
70.8% 0.082 70.2°
CIELAB (D50)
66.0, 11.7, 32.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.2; on black, Lc -50.7. 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 14.6 and 14.9 and 20.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#976f3f 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
#c29867
protanopia
#9d9d67 · ΔE00 14.6
deuteranopia
#a6a665 · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#aeae00 · ΔE00 20.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMannered Gold at ΔE00 0.846: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mannered GoldΔE00 0.846 · #c19763
- Wobbegong BrownΔE00 0.953 · #c19a6b
- TaffyΔE00 0.968 · #c39b6a
- CardboardΔE00 1.049 · #c19a6c
- Amber AutumnΔE00 1.211 · #c69c6a
- Donegal TweedΔE00 1.364 · #c19964
- Edgy GreenΔE00 1.781 · #bf9a67
- Light BronzerΔE00 1.805 · #bc9468
- Honey HavenΔE00 1.895 · #bc9263
- Cheers!ΔE00 2.02 · #c09962
- Welcome HomeΔE00 2.081 · #c09c6a
- Hazed NutsΔE00 2.094 · #c39e6d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.