Outback
#c9a375
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
#c9a375
RGB
201, 163, 117
OKLCh
73.9% 0.076 71.5°
CIELAB (D50)
69.7, 10.0, 29.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.1; on black, Lc -56.0. 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 13.6 and 13.8 and 20.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#947043 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
#c9a375
protanopia
#a8a875 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#afaf73 · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#b7b700 · ΔE00 20.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Thistle Yellow at ΔE00 0.311: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Golden Thistle YellowΔE00 0.311 · #caa375
- New FawnΔE00 0.798 · #c9a171
- Fresh SawdustΔE00 1.144 · #c8a278
- Bleached MapleΔE00 1.73 · #c7a06c
- Hazed NutsΔE00 1.836 · #c39e6d
- GingersnapΔE00 1.884 · #c79e73
- StonebriarΔE00 1.931 · #cba97e
- Sugar PieΔE00 1.942 · #c7a77b
- Friendly TanΔE00 2.06 · #c4a079
- Apple Sauce CakeΔE00 2.133 · #c2a377
- Amber AutumnΔE00 2.229 · #c69c6a
- Golden BeigeΔE00 2.245 · #cea277
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.