Latte
#c5a582
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
#c5a582
RGB
197, 165, 130
OKLCh
74.2% 0.061 69.2°
CIELAB (D50)
70.0, 8.4, 22.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 only 38% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.6; on black, Lc -56.5. 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 13.3 and 13.4 and 21.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7150 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
#c5a582
protanopia
#a9a982 · ΔE00 13.3
deuteranopia
#afaf81 · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#b6b600 · ΔE00 21.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isToffee Tan at ΔE00 1.032: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Toffee TanΔE00 1.032 · #c8a883
- AlmandineΔE00 1.069 · #c2a37e
- Light Pumpkin BrownΔE00 1.136 · #c2a585
- Coastal SandΔE00 1.16 · #c9a985
- Real CorkΔE00 1.185 · #c1a17f
- Pelican TanΔE00 1.334 · #c8a481
- FarroΔE00 1.39 · #c1a485
- MilanoΔE00 1.482 · #c1a181
- Siesta DreamsΔE00 1.553 · #c9a480
- Graham CrackerΔE00 1.663 · #c0a480
- Toasted GrainΔE00 1.678 · #c5a986
- African SandΔE00 1.774 · #ccaa88
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.