Copperhead
#d68755
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d68755
RGB
214, 135, 85
OKLCh
69.5% 0.117 52.1°
CIELAB (D50)
64.1, 27.6, 39.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.9; on black, Lc -48.0. 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 24.6 and 25.9 and 30.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.46:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.46:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af6331 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
#d68755
protanopia
#939356 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#a3a350 · ΔE00 25.9
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 30.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBright Sienna at ΔE00 0.869: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bright SiennaΔE00 0.869 · #d68a59
- Late BloomerΔE00 1.308 · #db8959
- SchnipoΔE00 1.41 · #dd8855
- BestigorΔE00 1.44 · #d38a57
- Sunny HorizonΔE00 1.52 · #d0875a
- Hematitic SandΔE00 1.604 · #dc8c59
- Amber WaveΔE00 1.653 · #d78b55
- Seraphim SepiaΔE00 1.692 · #d7824b
- Copper TanΔE00 1.863 · #dc8c5d
- Flaming TorchΔE00 1.959 · #d2864e
- LonghornΔE00 1.995 · #d88e5f
- Caramel BarΔE00 2.245 · #cc8654
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.