Salt Caramel
#d3934d
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d3934d
RGB
211, 147, 77
OKLCh
71.3% 0.116 66.4°
CIELAB (D50)
66.4, 19.8, 46.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.7; on black, Lc -51.2. 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 19.9 and 20.5 and 23.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.61:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a6691d 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
#d3934d
protanopia
#9c9c4e · ΔE00 19.9
deuteranopia
#a9a949 · ΔE00 20.5
tritanopia
#b6b600 · ΔE00 23.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Pilsner at ΔE00 0.868: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cold PilsnerΔE00 0.868 · #d09351
- Suede VestΔE00 1.666 · #d79043
- Apple FritterΔE00 1.692 · #cc9350
- Slightly GoldenΔE00 1.721 · #cb904e
- Hey Honey!ΔE00 1.957 · #cd8e43
- Saffron StrandsΔE00 2.098 · #d39952
- Poseidon’s GoldΔE00 2.111 · #d59a54
- Autumn SpiceΔE00 2.204 · #d19957
- Georgian YellowΔE00 2.278 · #d1974c
- Golden NuggetΔE00 2.294 · #d78e48
- Orange CaramelΔE00 2.299 · #de954b
- Magic MelonΔE00 2.344 · #de9851
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.