Ginger Beer
#c27f38
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c27f38
RGB
194, 127, 56
OKLCh
65.3% 0.119 64.3°
CIELAB (D50)
59.4, 22.1, 48.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.0; on black, Lc -41.7. 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 21.1 and 21.8 and 24.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.29:1 — large text only
Black text
6.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a9681b 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
#c27f38
protanopia
#898939 · ΔE00 21.1
deuteranopia
#979732 · ΔE00 21.8
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 24.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isExotic Honey at ΔE00 0.841: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Exotic HoneyΔE00 0.841 · #c47f33
- Autumn FestΔE00 1.237 · #be7d33
- Fancy SuedeΔE00 1.25 · #c3833d
- Mud YellowΔE00 1.329 · #c18136
- Mulberry ThornΔE00 1.593 · #c57f2e
- LonganΔE00 1.68 · #bd7a33
- Fresh ClayΔE00 1.725 · #be8035
- Bronze StormΔE00 1.726 · #bc8040
- Golden BellΔE00 1.746 · #ca8136
- Sweet TeaΔE00 1.804 · #c18244
- Beeswax CandleΔE00 1.965 · #bf7e41
- Maine Coon OrangeΔE00 2.011 · #c2792b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.