Coyote
#dc9b68
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dc9b68
RGB
220, 155, 104
OKLCh
74.2% 0.103 58.4°
CIELAB (D50)
69.7, 20.9, 36.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.2; on black, Lc -55.9. 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 20.8 and 21.7 and 27.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a66936 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
#dc9b68
protanopia
#a4a469 · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#b1b165 · ΔE00 21.7
tritanopia
#bfbf00 · ΔE00 27.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrown Yellow at ΔE00 0.776: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brown YellowΔE00 0.776 · #dd9966
- Folksy GoldΔE00 1.272 · #d69969
- Gold EarthΔE00 1.455 · #db9663
- Apple CiderΔE00 1.873 · #da995f
- Prayer FlagΔE00 1.884 · #d59c6a
- Di SierraΔE00 1.994 · #db995e
- Ochraceous SalmonΔE00 2.14 · #d99e73
- Candle YellowΔE00 2.197 · #e09b6e
- Caramelo DulceΔE00 2.222 · #d69e6b
- Amiable OrangeΔE00 2.239 · #df965b
- Butternut PieΔE00 2.335 · #d99e66
- Glazed PecanΔE00 2.365 · #d19564
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.