Fawn
#cfaf7b
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cfaf7b
RGB
207, 175, 123
OKLCh
77.0% 0.078 79.3°
CIELAB (D50)
73.4, 6.8, 31.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 29 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.7; on black, Lc -61.6. 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 11.0 and 11.2 and 18.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.09:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#90723f 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
#cfaf7b
protanopia
#b3b37b · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#b9b97a · ΔE00 11.2
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 18.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRomanesque Gold at ΔE00 0.331: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Romanesque GoldΔE00 0.331 · #d0af7a
- BeachwalkΔE00 0.883 · #d2b17a
- Steamed ChestnutΔE00 0.907 · #d3b17d
- RyeΔE00 1.053 · #d1ae7b
- Brass TrumpetΔE00 1.125 · #d3b280
- Golden AgeΔE00 1.315 · #ceab77
- BarleyΔE00 1.315 · #d5b37e
- Cup of TeaΔE00 1.326 · #caae7b
- Let It RingΔE00 1.385 · #cfae74
- Burning GoldΔE00 1.452 · #ccaa77
- Saxophone GoldΔE00 1.463 · #ceaf81
- SigmariteΔE00 1.567 · #caad76
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.