Escalope
#cc8866
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cc8866
RGB
204, 136, 102
OKLCh
68.8% 0.096 47.2°
CIELAB (D50)
63.3, 24.1, 29.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% 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 22.8 and 24.0 and 31.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a86745 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
#cc8866
protanopia
#929267 · ΔE00 22.8
deuteranopia
#a0a063 · ΔE00 24.0
tritanopia
#aeae00 · ΔE00 31.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCinnamon Brandy at ΔE00 1.457: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cinnamon BrandyΔE00 1.457 · #cf8d6c
- Cabana MelonΔE00 1.561 · #c88567
- Subdued SiennaΔE00 1.593 · #cc896c
- Harvest TimeΔE00 1.732 · #cf875f
- Georgian LeatherΔE00 1.992 · #cf875e
- Burning SandΔE00 2.207 · #d08363
- WheatberryΔE00 2.214 · #c8865e
- Clove BudΔE00 2.358 · #c8805f
- Balcony SunsetΔE00 2.467 · #d78e6b
- Baker’s DreamΔE00 2.546 · #c98f70
- GroundedΔE00 2.615 · #d18c62
- Shamanic JourneyΔE00 2.663 · #cc855a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.