HueComb

3AM Latte

#c0a98e

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

#c0a98e

RGB

192, 169, 142

OKLCh

74.8% 0.046 71.5°

CIELAB (D50)

70.7, 5.5, 17.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 only 29% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.5; on black, Lc -57.7. 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 11.1 and 11.4 and 21.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.26:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#89735a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c0a98e

protanopia

#acac8e · ΔE00 11.1

deuteranopia

#b0b08d · ΔE00 11.4

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 21.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoffee Diva at ΔE00 0.543: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Coffee DivaΔE00 0.543 · #bea88d
  • Wetland ClayΔE00 0.663 · #c1a98f
  • Palomino TanΔE00 0.731 · #c2aa8d
  • Brown OwlΔE00 0.751 · #c2aa90
  • Camel HideΔE00 0.811 · #c1aa91
  • Basket BeigeΔE00 1.068 · #c0a98b
  • Townhall TanΔE00 1.1 · #c3aa8c
  • Kangaroo FurΔE00 1.124 · #c4ad92
  • OakwoodΔE00 1.256 · #bda58b
  • Cork WedgeΔE00 1.3 · #c1a98a
  • Papyrus MapΔE00 1.371 · #c0ac92
  • Warm SandΔE00 1.54 · #c5ae91

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.