HueComb

Chipmunk

#cfa14a

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

Hex

#cfa14a

RGB

207, 161, 74

OKLCh

73.5% 0.117 81.0°

CIELAB (D50)

69.4, 10.8, 50.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 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 46.6; on black, Lc -55.4. 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 13.9 and 14.1 and 16.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9b6f02 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

#cfa14a

protanopia

#a7a74b · ΔE00 13.9

deuteranopia

#b0b047 · ΔE00 14.1

tritanopia

#baba00 · ΔE00 16.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOgryn Wash at ΔE00 1.024: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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