Caramelise
#d58a37
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d58a37
RGB
213, 138, 55
OKLCh
69.6% 0.132 64.8°
CIELAB (D50)
64.4, 24.5, 54.5
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 53.5; on black, Lc -48.3. 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 22.4 and 23.1 and 25.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac6600 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d58a37
protanopia
#959538 · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#a5a530 · ΔE00 23.1
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 25.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOpulent at ΔE00 1.018: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- OpulentΔE00 1.018 · #d5892f
- Status BronzeΔE00 1.538 · #dc8a30
- Buried TreasureΔE00 1.59 · #d28b42
- Suede VestΔE00 1.805 · #d79043
- Pumpkin SquashΔE00 1.863 · #ce862f
- Soft PumpkinΔE00 1.996 · #dc8e31
- CoppersmithΔE00 2.042 · #d98a3f
- DixieΔE00 2.076 · #cd8431
- KanafehΔE00 2.107 · #dd8833
- Brown BeigeΔE00 2.191 · #cc8833
- CognacΔE00 2.192 · #d48c46
- Apricot ChickenΔE00 2.313 · #da8923
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.