Steampunk Gold
#c39c55
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c39c55
RGB
195, 156, 85
OKLCh
71.4% 0.101 81.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.9, 8.8, 42.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.0; on black, Lc -51.9. 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 12.5 and 12.7 and 15.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#967127 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
#c39c55
protanopia
#a1a155 · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#a9a953 · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#b1b100 · ΔE00 15.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFallow at ΔE00 0.726: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- FallowΔE00 0.726 · #c19a51
- CamelΔE00 0.918 · #c69f59
- Aztec GoldΔE00 1.194 · #c39953
- Where Buffalo RoamΔE00 1.225 · #c19851
- Warm LeatherΔE00 1.23 · #c89f59
- Creole MustardΔE00 1.317 · #c69b4e
- Ginger JarΔE00 1.502 · #c6a05e
- Amaretto SourΔE00 1.576 · #c09856
- BorderlineΔE00 1.642 · #c69b58
- Base SandΔE00 1.875 · #bb9955
- Laredo RoadΔE00 1.965 · #c7994f
- Ole YellerΔE00 2.092 · #c79e5f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.