Lion
#c19a62
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c19a62
RGB
193, 154, 98
OKLCh
71.0% 0.087 75.6°
CIELAB (D50)
66.3, 9.9, 35.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.8; on black, Lc -51.2. 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 13.2 and 13.5 and 18.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.60:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#957038 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
#c19a62
protanopia
#9f9f62 · ΔE00 13.2
deuteranopia
#a7a760 · ΔE00 13.5
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 18.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCheers! at ΔE00 0.374: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cheers!ΔE00 0.374 · #c09962
- Donegal TweedΔE00 0.902 · #c19964
- Edgy GreenΔE00 1.156 · #bf9a67
- Mojave GoldΔE00 1.215 · #bf9c65
- TigerΔE00 1.488 · #be9c67
- Gold TorchΔE00 1.511 · #bd955e
- Welcome HomeΔE00 1.512 · #c09c6a
- Townhouse TanΔE00 1.578 · #c19859
- Karak StoneΔE00 1.609 · #bb9662
- Gold SpellΔE00 1.636 · #c19d61
- Wildflower HoneyΔE00 1.672 · #c69c5d
- Mannered GoldΔE00 1.68 · #c19763
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.