Molten Caramel
#bb7a39
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb7a39
RGB
187, 122, 57
OKLCh
63.5% 0.114 63.0°
CIELAB (D50)
57.3, 21.8, 45.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.6; on black, Lc -39.1. 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 21.0 and 21.6 and 24.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.53:1 — large text only
Black text
5.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a86825 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
#bb7a39
protanopia
#83833a · ΔE00 21.0
deuteranopia
#919134 · ΔE00 21.6
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 24.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrispy Gingersnap at ΔE00 0.782: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Crispy GingersnapΔE00 0.782 · #bb7838
- Tuscan SunsetΔE00 0.937 · #bb7c3f
- Fire LordΔE00 1.036 · #bb7733
- LonganΔE00 1.078 · #bd7a33
- Hacienda Del SolΔE00 1.201 · #bb7731
- Beeswax CandleΔE00 1.623 · #bf7e41
- Spruce YellowΔE00 1.742 · #b77d42
- Brandy PunchΔE00 1.835 · #c07c40
- Sudan BrownΔE00 1.87 · #bc752d
- Fall LeavesΔE00 1.903 · #c17a3c
- Bronze StormΔE00 1.972 · #bc8040
- MeteorΔE00 1.985 · #bb7431
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.