HueComb

Caramel Drizzle

#d9ad7f

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#d9ad7f

RGB

217, 173, 127

OKLCh

77.7% 0.080 67.5°

CIELAB (D50)

74.0, 12.2, 30.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.9; on black, Lc -62.4. 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 15.2 and 15.6 and 22.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.05:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.23:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.23:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#986f42 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

#d9ad7f

protanopia

#b3b37f · ΔE00 15.2

deuteranopia

#bbbb7d · ΔE00 15.6

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 22.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPaper Brown at ΔE00 0.443: 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.