Silence Is Golden
#c2a06d
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
#c2a06d
RGB
194, 160, 109
OKLCh
72.5% 0.079 77.1°
CIELAB (D50)
68.1, 8.0, 31.5
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 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. 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 11.9 and 12.1 and 18.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#92713f 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
#c2a06d
protanopia
#a4a46d · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#abab6c · ΔE00 12.1
tritanopia
#b2b200 · ΔE00 18.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEmpire Gold at ΔE00 0.573: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Empire GoldΔE00 0.573 · #c19f6e
- Gilded PearΔE00 0.628 · #c09e6c
- Curry SauceΔE00 1.205 · #be9e6f
- Hazed NutsΔE00 1.268 · #c39e6d
- Welcome HomeΔE00 1.284 · #c09c6a
- TigerΔE00 1.316 · #be9c67
- Mojave GoldΔE00 1.497 · #bf9c65
- Bleached MapleΔE00 1.503 · #c7a06c
- Mustard Seed BeigeΔE00 1.512 · #c5a574
- Gould GoldΔE00 1.825 · #bc9d70
- Edgy GreenΔE00 1.845 · #bf9a67
- Buckskin PonyΔE00 1.907 · #c9a169
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.