Caramel (#AF6F09) is a medium, highly saturated brown hue. Caramel is a golden brown that adds warmth next to cream and dark chocolate.
In RGB it is made of 175 red, 111 green and 9 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 37° with 90% saturation and 36% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 60% with a chroma of 0.127. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 37% magenta, 95% yellow and 31% black.
As a text color on white, Caramel has a contrast ratio of 4.12:1, which passes AA only for large text and UI parts. On black it reaches 5.1:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Caramel as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 36 for black text and Lc -73 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #3A83C7, close to steel blue. Colors that look most similar are copper, bronze, burnt orange. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 7), so its meaning mostly survives.