Polished Bronze
#cd7f32
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cd7f32
RGB
205, 127, 50
OKLCh
66.6% 0.132 61.3°
CIELAB (D50)
60.8, 26.6, 52.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.2; on black, Lc -43.5. 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 23.7 and 24.4 and 26.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.14:1 — large text only
Black text
6.68:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.68:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b06407 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
#cd7f32
protanopia
#8b8b33 · ΔE00 23.7
deuteranopia
#9b9b2a · ΔE00 24.4
tritanopia
#abab00 · ΔE00 26.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChinese Bronze at ΔE00 0.414: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chinese BronzeΔE00 0.414 · #cd8032
- Golden BellΔE00 1.044 · #ca8136
- Yellow MandarinΔE00 1.194 · #d28034
- Rapakivi GraniteΔE00 1.518 · #d28239
- Phoenix RisingΔE00 1.779 · #d2813a
- PeruΔE00 1.948 · #cd853f
- Exotic HoneyΔE00 2.184 · #c47f33
- DixieΔE00 2.194 · #cd8431
- Mexican SpiritΔE00 2.234 · #d68339
- Clay TerraceΔE00 2.293 · #d4823c
- Brownish OrangeΔE00 2.352 · #cb7723
- OchreΔE00 2.371 · #cc7722
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.