Bear Hug
#796359
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#796359
RGB
121, 99, 89
OKLCh
51.8% 0.033 45.8°
CIELAB (D50)
44.0, 7.9, 9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.0; on black, Lc -23.7. 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 12.5 and 13.5 and 23.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.74:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#796359
protanopia
#666659 · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#6a6a58 · ΔE00 13.5
tritanopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 23.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRanch House at ΔE00 0.626: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ranch HouseΔE00 0.626 · #7b645a
- Almond TruffleΔE00 1.322 · #7d665b
- Betalain RedΔE00 1.432 · #7d655c
- Cocoa MilkΔE00 1.525 · #7d675d
- TraditionalΔE00 1.732 · #776255
- Poppy PodsΔE00 2.084 · #736157
- PlumburnΔE00 2.09 · #7d665f
- Raccoon TailΔE00 2.14 · #735e56
- Deep TaupeΔE00 2.265 · #7b6660
- Bold BrandyΔE00 2.34 · #796660
- WarriorΔE00 2.403 · #7d685b
- Cobble BrownΔE00 2.416 · #7a6455
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.