Vintage Copper
#9d5f46
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9d5f46
RGB
157, 95, 70
OKLCh
54.9% 0.089 42.5°
CIELAB (D50)
47.1, 24.0, 25.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.7; on black, Lc -27.1. 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 23.1 and 24.0 and 30.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.16:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9d5f46
protanopia
#686847 · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#767643 · ΔE00 24.0
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 30.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMandalay Road at ΔE00 0.76: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mandalay RoadΔE00 0.76 · #a05f45
- Sepia SkinΔE00 1.2 · #9f5c42
- Chocolate FountainΔE00 1.5 · #9e5b40
- Nouveau CopperΔE00 1.619 · #a05b42
- Deer TracksΔE00 1.909 · #a1614c
- Spiced CarrotΔE00 2.261 · #a4624c
- SierraΔE00 2.276 · #a35c46
- EtruscanΔE00 2.477 · #9b583c
- CoconutΔE00 2.5 · #965a3e
- Rookwood Terra CottaΔE00 2.509 · #975840
- Tuscan RooftopsΔE00 2.53 · #9c6350
- Ground NutmegΔE00 2.563 · #a05a3b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.