Golden Nugget
#d78e48
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d78e48
RGB
215, 142, 72
OKLCh
70.8% 0.123 62.2°
CIELAB (D50)
65.7, 23.9, 48.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.7; on black, Lc -50.1. 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 22.3 and 23.1 and 26.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac6618 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
#d78e48
protanopia
#999949 · ΔE00 22.3
deuteranopia
#a8a843 · ΔE00 23.1
tritanopia
#b7b700 · ΔE00 26.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCognac at ΔE00 0.722: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CognacΔE00 0.722 · #d48c46
- Hazelnut CoffeeΔE00 1.394 · #d28a47
- Buried TreasureΔE00 1.413 · #d28b42
- CoppersmithΔE00 1.437 · #d98a3f
- Brushed ClayΔE00 1.61 · #db9351
- Suede VestΔE00 1.687 · #d79043
- Acorn NutΔE00 1.864 · #d48948
- Jazz BrassΔE00 1.97 · #d48740
- Orange CaramelΔE00 2.189 · #de954b
- Jasper OrangeΔE00 2.208 · #de8f4e
- Orange Nectar BatΔE00 2.212 · #ce8c4f
- Orange DropΔE00 2.226 · #e18e3f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.