Soft Pumpkin
#dc8e31
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dc8e31
RGB
220, 142, 49
OKLCh
71.2% 0.140 66.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.1, 25.2, 59.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% 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 51.1; on black, Lc -50.8. 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 22.7 and 23.3 and 25.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ab6700 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
#dc8e31
protanopia
#999932 · ΔE00 22.7
deuteranopia
#aaaa28 · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 25.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTurmeric Tea at ΔE00 1.326: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Turmeric TeaΔE00 1.326 · #d88e2d
- Status BronzeΔE00 1.485 · #dc8a30
- Apricot ChickenΔE00 1.554 · #da8923
- OpulentΔE00 1.731 · #d5892f
- French ToastΔE00 1.829 · #dd8822
- Sumac DyedΔE00 1.831 · #e08a1e
- CarameliseΔE00 1.996 · #d58a37
- SanskritΔE00 2.083 · #e69332
- Angel SharkΔE00 2.285 · #e19640
- Suede VestΔE00 2.332 · #d79043
- Autumn BlazeΔE00 2.39 · #d9922e
- Non-Stop OrangeΔE00 2.511 · #dd8811
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.