Caramel Macchiato
#c58d4b
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c58d4b
RGB
197, 141, 75
OKLCh
68.5% 0.107 68.8°
CIELAB (D50)
63.3, 16.9, 43.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.9; on black, Lc -46.9. 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 18.0 and 18.5 and 21.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16b26 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
#c58d4b
protanopia
#95954c · ΔE00 18.0
deuteranopia
#a0a047 · ΔE00 18.5
tritanopia
#acac00 · ΔE00 21.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Copper at ΔE00 1.12: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Light CopperΔE00 1.12 · #c48f4b
- Slightly GoldenΔE00 1.401 · #cb904e
- Golden LeafΔE00 1.444 · #c48b42
- Garden OchreΔE00 1.721 · #c38e46
- Automn FoxΔE00 1.853 · #c38743
- Apple FritterΔE00 1.931 · #cc9350
- Hey Honey!ΔE00 2.082 · #cd8e43
- Honey YellowΔE00 2.189 · #ca9456
- TwineΔE00 2.211 · #c19156
- Bosc PearΔE00 2.216 · #c09056
- Amber SiennaΔE00 2.293 · #c0863f
- Toffee TartΔE00 2.308 · #c08950
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.