Woodgrain
#996633
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#996633
RGB
153, 102, 51
OKLCh
55.4% 0.094 63.7°
CIELAB (D50)
48.0, 17.4, 36.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.6; on black, Lc -28.1. 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 18.1 and 18.7 and 21.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.30:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#996633
protanopia
#6d6d34 · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#78782f · ΔE00 18.7
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 21.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBuddy Buddy at ΔE00 1.523: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Buddy BuddyΔE00 1.523 · #976538
- Caramel KissesΔE00 1.654 · #9d652b
- Cathay SpiceΔE00 1.782 · #9d632d
- RetrofitΔE00 2.203 · #936630
- Horsing AroundΔE00 2.302 · #9a6c39
- Ginger DyΔE00 2.597 · #97653c
- EagleΔE00 2.76 · #a26c36
- Oregon HazelΔE00 2.887 · #916238
- Gallstone YellowΔE00 2.905 · #a36629
- Chilli Con CarneΔE00 2.956 · #985e2b
- Hot GingerΔE00 2.967 · #a36736
- Frappé au ChocolatΔE00 2.975 · #9a6840
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.