Olivia

#996622

An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#996622

RGB

153, 102, 34

OKLCh

55.3% 0.104 69.7°

CIELAB (D50)

47.9, 16.8, 44.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 87% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.8; on black, Lc -27.9. 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 17.4 and 17.8 and 19.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.91:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.28:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.91:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#996622

protanopia

#6d6d23 · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#78781c · ΔE00 17.8

tritanopia

#828200 · ΔE00 19.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStage Gold at ΔE00 1.647: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Stage GoldΔE00 1.647 · #9e6928
  • CobreΔE00 1.695 · #996515
  • MandolinΔE00 2.292 · #97691e
  • Syrah SoilΔE00 2.322 · #a16717
  • Embarrassed FrogΔE00 2.365 · #996611
  • TapenadeΔE00 2.501 · #906528
  • KomodoΔE00 2.523 · #a06814
  • Cinnamon BrownΔE00 2.533 · #9e6a19
  • RetrofitΔE00 2.748 · #936630
  • Soft Tone InkΔE00 2.786 · #9d6016
  • Caramel KissesΔE00 2.818 · #9d652b
  • DamasceneΔE00 2.939 · #996d32

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