Pony
#c6aa81
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
#c6aa81
RGB
198, 170, 129
OKLCh
75.3% 0.064 77.0°
CIELAB (D50)
71.4, 6.2, 25.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 25 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 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.7; on black, Lc -58.5. 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 10.9 and 11.0 and 19.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d734b 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
#c6aa81
protanopia
#adad81 · ΔE00 10.9
deuteranopia
#b3b380 · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#b9b900 · ΔE00 19.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMindful at ΔE00 0.612: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MindfulΔE00 0.612 · #c8ac82
- MiddlestoneΔE00 0.665 · #c7ab84
- CamelbackΔE00 1.109 · #c5aa85
- Pocket WatchΔE00 1.189 · #c2a781
- Harvest HomeΔE00 1.208 · #cbae84
- CroissantΔE00 1.3 · #c4ab86
- Waves of GrainΔE00 1.305 · #c7aa7c
- Dromedary CamelΔE00 1.426 · #caad87
- Downing StrawΔE00 1.451 · #caab7d
- Beach Coast BuffΔE00 1.452 · #caab84
- Sugar PieΔE00 1.471 · #c7a77b
- MedallionΔE00 1.552 · #c3a679
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.