Copious Caramel
#d0851d
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d0851d
RGB
208, 133, 29
OKLCh
67.9% 0.141 68.0°
CIELAB (D50)
62.4, 24.3, 62.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 94% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.0; on black, Lc -45.8. 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 21.9 and 22.4 and 23.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a96800 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d0851d
protanopia
#90901f · ΔE00 21.9
deuteranopia
#a0a00b · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 23.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDulce de Leche at ΔE00 1.579: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dulce de LecheΔE00 1.579 · #d6851f
- Harvest at DuskΔE00 1.623 · #cb862c
- Chicken MasalaΔE00 1.675 · #cc8822
- Pumpkin SquashΔE00 1.888 · #ce862f
- Gentleman’s WhiskeyΔE00 1.968 · #ca882c
- OpulentΔE00 2.204 · #d5892f
- Brown BeigeΔE00 2.219 · #cc8833
- Apricot ChickenΔE00 2.244 · #da8923
- Fleur de Sel CaramelΔE00 2.295 · #da8704
- Yamabukicha GoldΔE00 2.528 · #cb7e1f
- Bamboo BrownΔE00 2.566 · #c87f00
- YamΔE00 2.57 · #c98431
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.