Precious Copper
#885522
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#885522
RGB
136, 85, 34
OKLCh
49.7% 0.094 62.3°
CIELAB (D50)
41.4, 18.4, 37.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.8; on black, Lc -21.0. 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 18.5 and 19.1 and 21.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.23:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.37:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.23:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#885522
protanopia
#5d5d23 · ΔE00 18.5
deuteranopia
#67671d · ΔE00 19.1
tritanopia
#727200 · ΔE00 21.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaramel Café at ΔE00 1.952: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Caramel CaféΔE00 1.952 · #8e5626
- Milk ChocolateΔE00 2.74 · #7f4e1e
- TreacleΔE00 3.071 · #885d2d
- Plane BrownΔE00 3.122 · #8a5024
- Caffeinated CinnamonΔE00 3.131 · #885511
- GrizzlyΔE00 3.134 · #885818
- Afghan CarpetΔE00 3.409 · #905e26
- Rusty CoinΔE00 3.479 · #8d5f2c
- Medium BrownΔE00 3.636 · #7f5112
- Lion’s LairΔE00 3.969 · #81522e
- ValiseΔE00 3.976 · #80502b
- Sugar AlmondΔE00 4.014 · #935529
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.