HueComb

Mayan Treasure

#ce9844

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

Hex

#ce9844

RGB

206, 152, 68

OKLCh

71.6% 0.119 75.7°

CIELAB (D50)

67.0, 14.8, 51.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.0; 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 16.5 and 16.8 and 18.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.20:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.20:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a06d05 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

#ce9844

protanopia

#9f9f45 · ΔE00 16.5

deuteranopia

#aaaa40 · ΔE00 16.8

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 18.9

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 0.568: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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