Gold Rush
#c4a777
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
#c4a777
RGB
196, 167, 119
OKLCh
74.3% 0.072 79.8°
CIELAB (D50)
70.2, 6.0, 29.0
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 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.3; on black, Lc -56.8. 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 10.5 and 10.5 and 17.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e7344 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
#c4a777
protanopia
#abab77 · ΔE00 10.5
deuteranopia
#b0b076 · ΔE00 10.5
tritanopia
#b6b600 · ΔE00 17.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMedallion at ΔE00 0.826: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MedallionΔE00 0.826 · #c3a679
- Mustard Seed BeigeΔE00 1.012 · #c5a574
- Waves of GrainΔE00 1.027 · #c7aa7c
- AntiquityΔE00 1.444 · #c1a87c
- ToupeΔE00 1.454 · #c7ac7d
- CobblerΔE00 1.592 · #c4ab7d
- Downing StrawΔE00 1.608 · #caab7d
- Sugar PieΔE00 1.706 · #c7a77b
- Apple Sauce CakeΔE00 1.726 · #c2a377
- Common ChalcedonyΔE00 1.751 · #c8ad7f
- Burning GoldΔE00 1.887 · #ccaa77
- Hashibami BrownΔE00 1.902 · #bfa46f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.