HueComb

Wet Taupe

#907e6c

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#907e6c

RGB

144, 126, 108

OKLCh

60.5% 0.034 67.1°

CIELAB (D50)

54.1, 4.9, 12.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 26% 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 66.4; on black, Lc -35.2. 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 10.0 and 10.5 and 20.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.90:1 — large text only

Black text

5.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#857462 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

#907e6c

protanopia

#80806c · ΔE00 10.0

deuteranopia

#84846b · ΔE00 10.5

tritanopia

#878700 · ΔE00 20.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSquirrel at ΔE00 0.376: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • SquirrelΔE00 0.376 · #8f7d6b
  • Baneblade BrownΔE00 1.074 · #937f6d
  • TeakwoodΔE00 1.379 · #8d7e6d
  • Safari BeigeΔE00 1.472 · #8e7f6d
  • Spiced NutmegΔE00 1.606 · #927d6c
  • Inca TempleΔE00 1.691 · #8c7b6c
  • SofisticataΔE00 1.719 · #93806a
  • NestΔE00 1.902 · #917b68
  • Restful BrownΔE00 1.934 · #8c7e6f
  • Virtual TaupeΔE00 1.94 · #8a7a6a
  • GazelleΔE00 1.959 · #947e68
  • Weathered ShingleΔE00 1.964 · #937f68

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