Coffee Whip

#df9d5b

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#df9d5b

RGB

223, 157, 91

OKLCh

74.7% 0.114 64.5°

CIELAB (D50)

70.3, 20.4, 44.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.3; on black, Lc -56.8. 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 20.3 and 21.1 and 24.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a76922 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#df9d5b

protanopia

#a6a65c · ΔE00 20.3

deuteranopia

#b4b457 · ΔE00 21.1

tritanopia

#c1c100 · ΔE00 24.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApple Crisp at ΔE00 0.98: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Apple CrispΔE00 0.98 · #e19c55
  • ShawarmaΔE00 1.11 · #dd9955
  • Stunning GoldΔE00 1.388 · #da9a5d
  • Magic MelonΔE00 1.566 · #de9851
  • Honeycomb YellowΔE00 1.7 · #de9c52
  • India TradeΔE00 1.758 · #e0a362
  • RitzyΔE00 1.761 · #d79c5f
  • South HavenΔE00 1.773 · #e8a05a
  • Bakelite GoldΔE00 1.877 · #d7995d
  • Di SierraΔE00 1.924 · #db995e
  • Dechant Pear YellowΔE00 2.075 · #d79e62
  • Apple CiderΔE00 2.081 · #da995f

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.