Khaki

#c3b091

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

#c3b091

RGB

195, 176, 145

OKLCh

76.5% 0.048 80.0°

CIELAB (D50)

72.9, 3.5, 18.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 30% 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 41.4; on black, Lc -60.9. 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 8.8 and 9.0 and 20.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867457 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

#c3b091

protanopia

#b2b291 · ΔE00 8.8

deuteranopia

#b6b690 · ΔE00 9.0

tritanopia

#baba00 · ΔE00 20.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSawgrass Basket at ΔE00 0.331: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sawgrass BasketΔE00 0.331 · #c3b090
  • Favourite TanΔE00 0.852 · #c1ae91
  • Rock CliffsΔE00 0.956 · #c0af92
  • Beachside VillaΔE00 1.183 · #c3b296
  • A Pair of Brown EyesΔE00 1.317 · #bfaf92
  • Olive GoldΔE00 1.326 · #bfac8b
  • Woven StrawΔE00 1.345 · #c1ac8b
  • Barking Prairie DogΔE00 1.354 · #c5b497
  • Peculiarly Drab TinctureΔE00 1.439 · #c5af91
  • Egyptian SandΔE00 1.463 · #beac90
  • Vast DesertΔE00 1.646 · #c2b197
  • Brown BunnyΔE00 1.661 · #c2ae93

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