Cork Wood
#cc7744
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cc7744
RGB
204, 119, 68
OKLCh
65.3% 0.125 50.1°
CIELAB (D50)
59.0, 30.9, 42.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.5; on black, Lc -41.2. 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 26.3 and 27.7 and 31.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.34:1 — large text only
Black text
6.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b3612d 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
#cc7744
protanopia
#848445 · ΔE00 26.3
deuteranopia
#97973e · ΔE00 27.7
tritanopia
#a8a800 · ΔE00 31.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStriking Orange at ΔE00 0.612: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Striking OrangeΔE00 0.612 · #ce7843
- Rhumba OrangeΔE00 1.177 · #cb7841
- Brown Sugar GlazeΔE00 1.447 · #cf7a4b
- Garnet SandΔE00 1.662 · #cc7446
- Apricot BuffΔE00 2.005 · #cd7e4d
- Maple LeafΔE00 2.076 · #d17b41
- ZestΔE00 2.104 · #c6723b
- Pumpkin BreadΔE00 2.126 · #d27d46
- Marmalade GlazeΔE00 2.127 · #c27545
- WulfeniteΔE00 2.144 · #ce7639
- Mann OrangeΔE00 2.239 · #cf7336
- Turmeric RedΔE00 2.292 · #ca7a40
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.