HueComb

Cognac

#d48c46

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

Hex

#d48c46

RGB

212, 140, 70

OKLCh

70.0% 0.123 62.6°

CIELAB (D50)

64.8, 23.6, 48.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.9; on black, Lc -49.0. 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 22.1 and 22.9 and 25.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.75:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ab6619 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

#d48c46

protanopia

#969647 · ΔE00 22.1

deuteranopia

#a5a541 · ΔE00 22.9

tritanopia

#b4b400 · 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 isGolden Nugget at ΔE00 0.722: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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