Butter Bronze
#c88849
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c88849
RGB
200, 136, 73
OKLCh
67.9% 0.112 63.5°
CIELAB (D50)
62.4, 20.7, 43.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 56.1; on black, Lc -45.7. 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 20.4 and 21.1 and 24.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.97:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a66927 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
#c88849
protanopia
#91914a · ΔE00 20.4
deuteranopia
#9e9e45 · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#abab00 · ΔE00 24.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTassel at ΔE00 0.477: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TasselΔE00 0.477 · #c6884a
- Golden PumpkinΔE00 0.815 · #ca884b
- Raw LinenΔE00 1.124 · #cc8844
- Butterscotch GlazeΔE00 1.291 · #c48446
- Coral SandΔE00 1.438 · #ca884e
- Orange Nectar BatΔE00 1.635 · #ce8c4f
- PeruΔE00 1.845 · #cd853f
- Automn FoxΔE00 1.886 · #c38743
- Melted CopperΔE00 1.991 · #ce8544
- Sweet TeaΔE00 2.028 · #c18244
- Butter RumΔE00 2.08 · #c38650
- Hazelnut CoffeeΔE00 2.136 · #d28a47
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.