Hot Cacao
#a5694f
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a5694f
RGB
165, 105, 79
OKLCh
58.0% 0.086 44.1°
CIELAB (D50)
50.7, 22.6, 25.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.6; on black, Lc -31.1. 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 22.5 and 23.3 and 29.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.44:1 — large text only
Black text
4.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a4684e 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
#a5694f
protanopia
#72724f · ΔE00 22.5
deuteranopia
#7e7e4c · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 29.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCedar Plank Salmon at ΔE00 1: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cedar Plank SalmonΔE00 1 · #a96a50
- Toffee GlazeΔE00 1.398 · #a5654a
- Airbrushed CopperΔE00 1.448 · #aa6c51
- Mojave SunsetΔE00 1.772 · #aa6a53
- Ruddy OakΔE00 1.793 · #a5654e
- Verminlord HideΔE00 1.873 · #a16954
- Orange FlambeΔE00 2.111 · #a96f55
- Soho RedΔE00 2.249 · #ab6953
- Bear ClawΔE00 2.304 · #ae6b52
- Antique CopperΔE00 2.312 · #9e6649
- Perfect PennyΔE00 2.336 · #a06a56
- Deep Clay RedΔE00 2.428 · #ae6a52
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.