HueComb

Victorian Crown

#c38b36

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#c38b36

RGB

195, 139, 54

OKLCh

67.7% 0.120 74.1°

CIELAB (D50)

62.4, 16.2, 52.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.1; on black, Lc -45.7. 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 17.3 and 17.7 and 19.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.97:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a26c04 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

#c38b36

protanopia

#939337 · ΔE00 17.3

deuteranopia

#9e9e31 · ΔE00 17.7

tritanopia

#aaaa00 · ΔE00 19.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isButter Base at ΔE00 0.318: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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