Hot Caramel
#cc6e3b
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cc6e3b
RGB
204, 110, 59
OKLCh
63.6% 0.136 47.3°
CIELAB (D50)
57.0, 35.1, 44.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.0; on black, Lc -38.7. 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 28.4 and 30.1 and 33.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.58:1 — large text only
Black text
5.86:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.86:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b95d29 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
#cc6e3b
protanopia
#7d7d3c · ΔE00 28.4
deuteranopia
#929234 · ΔE00 30.1
tritanopia
#a5a500 · ΔE00 33.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Orange at ΔE00 1.43: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Apricot OrangeΔE00 1.43 · #c86b3c
- Adobe DuskΔE00 1.599 · #c5703f
- Golden OchreΔE00 1.694 · #c56f3b
- Burnt CopperΔE00 1.813 · #c56a39
- Casa de OroΔE00 1.914 · #cf6837
- Garnet SandΔE00 1.919 · #cc7446
- Peach CaramelΔE00 2.169 · #c56a3d
- Gold DropΔE00 2.265 · #d56c30
- Winter SunsetΔE00 2.38 · #ca6636
- ZestΔE00 2.384 · #c6723b
- Field PoppyΔE00 2.486 · #d86f3c
- TangoΔE00 2.503 · #d46f31
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.