Beauty and the Beach
#c99680
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
#c99680
RGB
201, 150, 128
OKLCh
71.6% 0.069 44.4°
CIELAB (D50)
66.6, 17.6, 19.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 50.3; on black, Lc -51.7. 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 20.9 and 21.4 and 30.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.16:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.16:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6c57 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
#c99680
protanopia
#9d9d80 · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#a7a77e · ΔE00 21.4
tritanopia
#b2b200 · ΔE00 30.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Beige at ΔE00 1.112: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sweet BeigeΔE00 1.112 · #c6947c
- Revenant BrownΔE00 1.257 · #c59782
- African BubingaΔE00 1.334 · #c7927a
- Money TreeΔE00 1.349 · #c9937a
- Café CrèmeΔE00 1.844 · #c79685
- Chinook SalmonΔE00 1.879 · #c8987e
- Potter’s PinkΔE00 1.92 · #c2937b
- Tint of EarthΔE00 1.988 · #ce9480
- Dusty CoralΔE00 2.022 · #d29b83
- Florentine ClayΔE00 2.387 · #c1937a
- Copper LakeΔE00 2.437 · #c09078
- Portrait ToneΔE00 2.472 · #c4957a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.