HueComb

Gingerbread House

#ca994e

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ca994e

RGB

202, 153, 78

OKLCh

71.4% 0.110 76.0°

CIELAB (D50)

66.9, 13.0, 46.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.1; on black, Lc -51.8. 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 15.4 and 15.7 and 18.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.57:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.18:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.18:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9d6e1d 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

#ca994e

protanopia

#a0a04f · ΔE00 15.4

deuteranopia

#a9a94b · ΔE00 15.7

tritanopia

#b3b300 · ΔE00 18.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLaredo Road at ΔE00 0.816: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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