Caramel Essence
#e3af64
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e3af64
RGB
227, 175, 100
OKLCh
78.6% 0.111 75.1°
CIELAB (D50)
75.2, 13.4, 45.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.2; on black, Lc -64.2. 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 15.8 and 16.2 and 19.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9e6d1b 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
#e3af64
protanopia
#b6b665 · ΔE00 15.8
deuteranopia
#c0c061 · ΔE00 16.2
tritanopia
#cbcb00 · ΔE00 19.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLamplit at ΔE00 0.398: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- LamplitΔE00 0.398 · #e4af65
- CameleerΔE00 0.909 · #e2af60
- Sahara ShadeΔE00 1.193 · #e2ab60
- BuzzworthyΔE00 1.352 · #e6b261
- Necrophilic BrownΔE00 1.465 · #dead69
- Autumn AvenueΔE00 1.593 · #e3ad59
- Gilded AgeΔE00 1.601 · #e4b46e
- Salted CaramelΔE00 1.607 · #ebb367
- Fire CoralΔE00 1.774 · #e3b46f
- Earth YellowΔE00 1.783 · #e1a95f
- SunrayΔE00 1.789 · #e3ab57
- Yellow VarnishΔE00 1.804 · #eab565
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.