Touch of Glamour
#dd8844
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dd8844
RGB
221, 136, 68
OKLCh
70.4% 0.133 56.8°
CIELAB (D50)
65.0, 29.2, 49.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.6; on black, Lc -49.3. 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 25.4 and 26.4 and 29.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.73:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.68:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.68:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b36214 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
#dd8844
protanopia
#959545 · ΔE00 25.4
deuteranopia
#a7a73d · ΔE00 26.4
tritanopia
#b8b800 · ΔE00 29.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSerape at ΔE00 1.622: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SerapeΔE00 1.622 · #d88b4d
- Jasper OrangeΔE00 1.929 · #de8f4e
- Dull OrangeΔE00 1.969 · #d8863b
- Acorn NutΔE00 2.028 · #d48948
- Toffee CreamΔE00 2.071 · #d98b51
- Mexican SpiritΔE00 2.227 · #d68339
- CoppersmithΔE00 2.282 · #d98a3f
- Clay TerraceΔE00 2.291 · #d4823c
- Jazz BrassΔE00 2.308 · #d48740
- Apricot TanΔE00 2.325 · #da8c53
- Tree PoppyΔE00 2.4 · #e2813b
- Velvet MarigoldΔE00 2.436 · #e58d3f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.