Caramel Gold
#b1936d
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
#b1936d
RGB
177, 147, 109
OKLCh
68.1% 0.064 73.0°
CIELAB (D50)
63.0, 7.7, 24.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.2; on black, Lc -46.6. 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 12.3 and 12.3 and 19.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.26:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f724d 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
#b1936d
protanopia
#97976d · ΔE00 12.3
deuteranopia
#9d9d6c · ΔE00 12.3
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 19.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArmagnac at ΔE00 1.017: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ArmagnacΔE00 1.017 · #ad916c
- Creamy CaramelΔE00 1.062 · #b3956c
- BaguetteΔE00 1.343 · #b5936a
- Pale BrownΔE00 1.435 · #b1916e
- Beast HideΔE00 1.487 · #b08f69
- MorrelΔE00 1.57 · #ac8f6c
- Brown BranchΔE00 1.584 · #b08f6a
- Tapestry GoldΔE00 1.692 · #b4966b
- WarrantΔE00 1.738 · #b8966e
- Brown RabbitΔE00 1.775 · #ae8e65
- Modern AvocadoΔE00 1.787 · #ad9167
- Cuppa TeaΔE00 1.807 · #b89871
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.