HueComb

Medallion

#c3a679

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

#c3a679

RGB

195, 166, 121

OKLCh

74.0% 0.069 78.3°

CIELAB (D50)

69.9, 6.3, 27.5

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 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.7; on black, Lc -56.4. 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 10.8 and 10.9 and 18.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e7247 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

#c3a679

protanopia

#aaaa79 · ΔE00 10.8

deuteranopia

#afaf78 · ΔE00 10.9

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 18.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGold Rush at ΔE00 0.826: 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.