Panela
#9b5227
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9b5227
RGB
155, 82, 39
OKLCh
51.9% 0.112 48.7°
CIELAB (D50)
43.5, 28.6, 38.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.5; on black, Lc -23.2. 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 24.6 and 26.0 and 29.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.63:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9b5227
protanopia
#5e5e28 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#6e6e21 · ΔE00 26.0
tritanopia
#7d7d00 · ΔE00 29.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAncient Chest at ΔE00 1.037: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ancient ChestΔE00 1.037 · #99522b
- Hawaiian CoconutΔE00 1.291 · #99522c
- Ancient BronzeΔE00 1.39 · #9c5221
- RustyΔE00 1.395 · #96512a
- WarmthΔE00 1.518 · #9f552d
- Leather BrownΔE00 1.773 · #97502b
- Ethiopian WolfΔE00 1.857 · #985629
- RendangΔE00 2.093 · #9b4b20
- Chelsea GemΔE00 2.105 · #95532f
- Roasted PecanΔE00 2.158 · #93542b
- Texas Ranger BrownΔE00 2.226 · #a0522d
- Seared EarthΔE00 2.363 · #9a5633
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.