Salt Caramel

#d3934d

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

Hex

#d3934d

RGB

211, 147, 77

OKLCh

71.3% 0.116 66.4°

CIELAB (D50)

66.4, 19.8, 46.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 50.7; on black, Lc -51.2. 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 19.9 and 20.5 and 23.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a6691d 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

#d3934d

protanopia

#9c9c4e · ΔE00 19.9

deuteranopia

#a9a949 · ΔE00 20.5

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 23.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCold Pilsner at ΔE00 0.868: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cold PilsnerΔE00 0.868 · #d09351
  • Suede VestΔE00 1.666 · #d79043
  • Apple FritterΔE00 1.692 · #cc9350
  • Slightly GoldenΔE00 1.721 · #cb904e
  • Hey Honey!ΔE00 1.957 · #cd8e43
  • Saffron StrandsΔE00 2.098 · #d39952
  • Poseidon’s GoldΔE00 2.111 · #d59a54
  • Autumn SpiceΔE00 2.204 · #d19957
  • Georgian YellowΔE00 2.278 · #d1974c
  • Golden NuggetΔE00 2.294 · #d78e48
  • Orange CaramelΔE00 2.299 · #de954b
  • Magic MelonΔE00 2.344 · #de9851

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