Bengal
#cc974d
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cc974d
RGB
204, 151, 77
OKLCh
71.3% 0.111 73.5°
CIELAB (D50)
66.6, 14.8, 46.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.5; on black, Lc -51.4. 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 16.6 and 17.0 and 19.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9f6d1c 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
#cc974d
protanopia
#9e9e4e · ΔE00 16.6
deuteranopia
#a9a94a · ΔE00 17.0
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 19.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBales of Brown at ΔE00 0.935: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bales of BrownΔE00 0.935 · #cf994b
- Sugar Glazed CashewΔE00 1.201 · #cc9955
- Gingerbread HouseΔE00 1.233 · #ca994e
- Georgian YellowΔE00 1.31 · #d1974c
- Mayan TreasureΔE00 1.729 · #ce9844
- Saffron StrandsΔE00 1.925 · #d39952
- Laredo RoadΔE00 1.953 · #c7994f
- Arabian BakeΔE00 1.979 · #cd9945
- Amber GlassΔE00 2.073 · #c79958
- NarcissusΔE00 2.198 · #c39449
- Autumn SpiceΔE00 2.265 · #d19957
- Apple FritterΔE00 2.272 · #cc9350
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.