Cajeta
#c46d29
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c46d29
RGB
196, 109, 41
OKLCh
62.2% 0.136 54.3°
CIELAB (D50)
55.5, 31.8, 51.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 87% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.8; on black, Lc -36.8. 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 26.5 and 27.6 and 29.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.77:1 — large text only
Black text
5.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b66017 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
#c46d29
protanopia
#7b7b2b · ΔE00 26.5
deuteranopia
#8e8e1e · ΔE00 27.6
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 29.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaramelised Peach at ΔE00 0.61: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Caramelised PeachΔE00 0.61 · #c56f2b
- Kincha BrownΔE00 0.821 · #c66b27
- Warm Cream SpiritΔE00 1.012 · #c36c2d
- Carrot CakeΔE00 1.408 · #bf6f31
- Kohaku AmberΔE00 1.86 · #ca6924
- Ochre PigmentΔE00 1.973 · #c77135
- Desert SpiceΔE00 2.217 · #c66b30
- OctoberΔE00 2.352 · #c67533
- Lucky PennyΔE00 2.489 · #bc6f37
- Tiger StripeΔE00 2.656 · #bf6f39
- Hawaiian SunsetΔE00 2.707 · #c06714
- Thai CurryΔE00 2.728 · #bd6b1c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.