HueComb

Camel Cardinal

#cc9944

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

Hex

#cc9944

RGB

204, 153, 68

OKLCh

71.5% 0.118 77.5°

CIELAB (D50)

67.0, 13.4, 51.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.9; on black, Lc -52.0. 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 15.6 and 15.9 and 17.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9e6d05 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

#cc9944

protanopia

#a0a045 · ΔE00 15.6

deuteranopia

#aaaa40 · ΔE00 15.9

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 17.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArabian Bake at ΔE00 0.379: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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