HueComb

Windsor Toffee

#ccb490

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

#ccb490

RGB

204, 180, 144

OKLCh

78.1% 0.056 77.8°

CIELAB (D50)

74.7, 4.9, 21.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 26 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 only 34% 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 38.7; on black, Lc -63.6. 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 10.2 and 10.3 and 20.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.00:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.50:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.50:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a7351 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#ccb490

protanopia

#b7b790 · ΔE00 10.2

deuteranopia

#bbbb8f · ΔE00 10.3

tritanopia

#c0c000 · ΔE00 20.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlmond Buff at ΔE00 0.604: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Almond BuffΔE00 0.604 · #ccb590
  • Tropical TanΔE00 0.672 · #cbb391
  • GranivorousΔE00 0.981 · #d0b690
  • Foothill DriveΔE00 1.147 · #cab48e
  • VermicelliΔE00 1.162 · #d1b791
  • GoldfrappΔE00 1.296 · #ceb790
  • CommunityΔE00 1.44 · #d0b997
  • Raffia RibbonΔE00 1.451 · #cbb08c
  • Cappuccino FrothΔE00 1.455 · #c8b089
  • Spanish SandΔE00 1.491 · #cab08e
  • MoraineΔE00 1.5 · #ceb391
  • Stacked LimestoneΔE00 1.558 · #d1b992

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.