Copper Coin
#da8a67
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#da8a67
RGB
218, 138, 103
OKLCh
70.9% 0.110 44.2°
CIELAB (D50)
65.5, 28.8, 32.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.0; on black, Lc -49.9. 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 25.2 and 26.9 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.69:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af6341 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
#da8a67
protanopia
#969668 · ΔE00 25.2
deuteranopia
#a7a763 · ΔE00 26.9
tritanopia
#b7b700 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCopper Wire at ΔE00 0.409: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Copper WireΔE00 0.409 · #db8b67
- Midnight in SaigonΔE00 1.055 · #dd8866
- Balcony SunsetΔE00 1.493 · #d78e6b
- Bronzed OrangeΔE00 1.512 · #d78a6c
- Canyon SunsetΔE00 1.704 · #dd8869
- King SalmonΔE00 1.902 · #d88668
- BockwurstΔE00 2.02 · #df8f67
- Copper PipeΔE00 2.233 · #da8f67
- Show BusinessΔE00 2.345 · #dd835b
- Terra Cotta PotΔE00 2.539 · #d38d71
- Burning SandΔE00 2.548 · #d08363
- Shell CoralΔE00 2.668 · #e88d68
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.