HueComb

Home Brew

#897b66

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

#897b66

RGB

137, 123, 102

OKLCh

59.0% 0.035 77.9°

CIELAB (D50)

52.5, 3.0, 13.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 only 29% 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 68.4; on black, Lc -33.3. 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 7.8 and 8.1 and 18.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.13:1 — large text only

Black text

5.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837560 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#897b66

protanopia

#7d7d66 · ΔE00 7.8

deuteranopia

#7f7f66 · ΔE00 8.1

tritanopia

#828200 · ΔE00 18.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDowning Earth at ΔE00 0.536: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Downing EarthΔE00 0.536 · #887b67
  • Industrial StrengthΔE00 0.7 · #877a65
  • Clay BathΔE00 0.887 · #8a7d69
  • Pie SafeΔE00 0.905 · #877a64
  • Mountain ElkΔE00 0.991 · #867965
  • Flood MudΔE00 1.1 · #877966
  • Native SoilΔE00 1.166 · #887b69
  • Eagle’s MeadowΔE00 1.373 · #8d7d68
  • PatchesΔE00 1.391 · #8a7d6b
  • Turtle ShellΔE00 1.452 · #897c64
  • Lead GreyΔE00 1.509 · #8a7963
  • GuyΔE00 1.535 · #897a68

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.