Camel
#c69f59
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c69f59
RGB
198, 159, 89
OKLCh
72.4% 0.100 80.7°
CIELAB (D50)
68.0, 8.8, 41.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.4; on black, Lc -53.5. 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 16.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.47:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#967128 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
#c69f59
protanopia
#a4a459 · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#acac57 · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Leather at ΔE00 0.604: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Warm LeatherΔE00 0.604 · #c89f59
- Ginger JarΔE00 0.808 · #c6a05e
- Steampunk GoldΔE00 0.918 · #c39c55
- FallowΔE00 1.621 · #c19a51
- Creole MustardΔE00 1.737 · #c69b4e
- BorderlineΔE00 1.747 · #c69b58
- Ole YellerΔE00 1.749 · #c79e5f
- Aztec GoldΔE00 1.819 · #c39953
- Sunrise HeatΔE00 2.028 · #caa061
- Wildflower HoneyΔE00 2.043 · #c69c5d
- Where Buffalo RoamΔE00 2.045 · #c19851
- Caribou HerdΔE00 2.068 · #cda563
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.