Coffee Whip
#df9d5b
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#df9d5b
RGB
223, 157, 91
OKLCh
74.7% 0.114 64.5°
CIELAB (D50)
70.3, 20.4, 44.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.3; on black, Lc -56.8. 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 20.3 and 21.1 and 24.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a76922 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
#df9d5b
protanopia
#a6a65c · ΔE00 20.3
deuteranopia
#b4b457 · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#c1c100 · ΔE00 24.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApple Crisp at ΔE00 0.98: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Apple CrispΔE00 0.98 · #e19c55
- ShawarmaΔE00 1.11 · #dd9955
- Stunning GoldΔE00 1.388 · #da9a5d
- Magic MelonΔE00 1.566 · #de9851
- Honeycomb YellowΔE00 1.7 · #de9c52
- India TradeΔE00 1.758 · #e0a362
- RitzyΔE00 1.761 · #d79c5f
- South HavenΔE00 1.773 · #e8a05a
- Bakelite GoldΔE00 1.877 · #d7995d
- Di SierraΔE00 1.924 · #db995e
- Dechant Pear YellowΔE00 2.075 · #d79e62
- Apple CiderΔE00 2.081 · #da995f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.