Café au Lait
#a57c5b
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a57c5b
RGB
165, 124, 91
OKLCh
61.9% 0.069 59.9°
CIELAB (D50)
55.5, 13.3, 24.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.8; on black, Lc -36.9. 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 16.8 and 16.9 and 22.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.73:1 — large text only
Black text
5.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#976e4e 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
#a57c5b
protanopia
#81815b · ΔE00 16.8
deuteranopia
#8a8a59 · ΔE00 16.9
tritanopia
#929200 · ΔE00 22.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmokey Topaz at ΔE00 0.582: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Smokey TopazΔE00 0.582 · #a57b5b
- Tuscan SoilΔE00 0.799 · #a67b5b
- S’moresΔE00 1.143 · #a87f5f
- Cinnamon CrunchΔE00 1.323 · #a37d5a
- SidesaddleΔE00 1.486 · #a17858
- PennyΔE00 1.626 · #a97f5a
- Roman BrickΔE00 1.662 · #ab7f5b
- Agrellan EarthΔE00 1.663 · #a17c59
- Burnt ToffeeΔE00 1.73 · #ab7e5e
- ChamoiseeΔE00 1.779 · #a0785a
- Outdoor LandΔE00 1.789 · #a07d5e
- VelddrifΔE00 1.871 · #a17d61
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.