Amaretto Sour
#c09856
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c09856
RGB
192, 152, 86
OKLCh
70.3% 0.097 78.7°
CIELAB (D50)
65.6, 9.7, 40.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.8; on black, Lc -50.1. 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 13.0 and 13.3 and 16.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#96702d 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
#c09856
protanopia
#9d9d56 · ΔE00 13.0
deuteranopia
#a5a554 · ΔE00 13.3
tritanopia
#adad00 · ΔE00 16.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTownhouse Tan at ΔE00 0.797: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Townhouse TanΔE00 0.797 · #c19859
- Aztec GoldΔE00 0.907 · #c39953
- Where Buffalo RoamΔE00 0.94 · #c19851
- Amber GoldΔE00 1.295 · #c19552
- BorderlineΔE00 1.373 · #c69b58
- Maple SyrupΔE00 1.543 · #bb9351
- Steampunk GoldΔE00 1.576 · #c39c55
- FallowΔE00 1.582 · #c19a51
- Different GoldΔE00 1.689 · #bc934d
- Wildflower HoneyΔE00 1.701 · #c69c5d
- Lion’s SlumberΔE00 1.863 · #bb9252
- Gold SpellΔE00 1.942 · #c19d61
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.