Summer’s End
#dc9367
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dc9367
RGB
220, 147, 103
OKLCh
72.7% 0.106 51.5°
CIELAB (D50)
67.8, 25.0, 35.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 48.8; on black, Lc -53.1. 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 23.2 and 24.5 and 30.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.50:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ab663a 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
#dc9367
protanopia
#9d9d68 · ΔE00 23.2
deuteranopia
#adad64 · ΔE00 24.5
tritanopia
#bcbc00 · ΔE00 30.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCopper Cove at ΔE00 0.846: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Copper CoveΔE00 0.846 · #d89166
- LonghornΔE00 1.625 · #d88e5f
- Copper PipeΔE00 1.642 · #da8f67
- Copper TanΔE00 2.027 · #dc8c5d
- Pumpkin PatchΔE00 2.096 · #d59466
- BockwurstΔE00 2.174 · #df8f67
- Candle YellowΔE00 2.198 · #e09b6e
- Pinch of CloveΔE00 2.282 · #d2916b
- WhiskeyΔE00 2.371 · #d29062
- Gold EarthΔE00 2.424 · #db9663
- Hematitic SandΔE00 2.436 · #dc8c59
- GroundedΔE00 2.535 · #d18c62
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.