Butterum
#c68f65
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c68f65
RGB
198, 143, 101
OKLCh
69.4% 0.088 58.0°
CIELAB (D50)
64.2, 17.9, 31.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.7; on black, Lc -48.2. 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 19.0 and 19.7 and 25.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9f6b42 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
#c68f65
protanopia
#979765 · ΔE00 19.0
deuteranopia
#a2a263 · ΔE00 19.7
tritanopia
#adad00 · ΔE00 25.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShiracha Brown at ΔE00 1.458: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Shiracha BrownΔE00 1.458 · #c48e69
- Eastlake GoldΔE00 1.492 · #c28e61
- Santa Fe SunriseΔE00 1.618 · #cc9469
- Orange PekoeΔE00 1.662 · #cb8d5f
- Copper HideΔE00 1.786 · #c48c67
- Hitching PostΔE00 1.885 · #c48d69
- FerrousΔE00 2.039 · #cc926c
- Texas HillsΔE00 2.081 · #c9926e
- SurpriseΔE00 2.136 · #c9936f
- Espresso TonicΔE00 2.293 · #c18b5b
- SassyΔE00 2.453 · #c18862
- Peace of MindΔE00 2.505 · #c1875f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.