Peru

#cd853f

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#cd853f

RGB

205, 133, 63

OKLCh

67.8% 0.123 62.2°

CIELAB (D50)

62.3, 23.9, 48.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.3; on black, Lc -45.5. 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 22.3 and 23.0 and 25.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.99:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.02:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.02:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ac6619 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

#cd853f

protanopia

#909040 · ΔE00 22.3

deuteranopia

#9f9f39 · ΔE00 23.0

tritanopia

#adad00 · ΔE00 25.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaw Linen at ΔE00 1.038: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Raw LinenΔE00 1.038 · #cc8844
  • Melted CopperΔE00 1.161 · #ce8544
  • Golden BellΔE00 1.474 · #ca8136
  • Jazz BrassΔE00 1.5 · #d48740
  • Rapakivi GraniteΔE00 1.637 · #d28239
  • Hazelnut CoffeeΔE00 1.681 · #d28a47
  • Chinese BronzeΔE00 1.799 · #cd8032
  • Butter BronzeΔE00 1.845 · #c88849
  • Golden PumpkinΔE00 1.868 · #ca884b
  • Buried TreasureΔE00 1.911 · #d28b42
  • Polished BronzeΔE00 1.948 · #cd7f32
  • Phoenix RisingΔE00 1.986 · #d2813a

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