Brown Sugar Glaze
#cf7a4b
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cf7a4b
RGB
207, 122, 75
OKLCh
66.3% 0.123 48.5°
CIELAB (D50)
60.1, 30.9, 40.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.0; on black, Lc -42.7. 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 27.9 and 32.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.21:1 — large text only
Black text
6.54:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.54:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b36131 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
#cf7a4b
protanopia
#87874c · ΔE00 26.3
deuteranopia
#999946 · ΔE00 27.9
tritanopia
#abab00 · ΔE00 32.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChallah Bread at ΔE00 1.274: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Challah BreadΔE00 1.274 · #cd7a50
- Cork WoodΔE00 1.447 · #cc7744
- Striking OrangeΔE00 1.572 · #ce7843
- Apricot BuffΔE00 1.589 · #cd7e4d
- Garnet SandΔE00 1.759 · #cc7446
- Copper HarborΔE00 1.822 · #d57e52
- Brazen OrangeΔE00 2.002 · #ce7850
- Jack-O-LanternΔE00 2.042 · #d37a51
- Pumpkin BreadΔE00 2.168 · #d27d46
- Rhumba OrangeΔE00 2.368 · #cb7841
- Sweet CarrotΔE00 2.471 · #cc764f
- Maple LeafΔE00 2.63 · #d17b41
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.