HueComb

Muesli

#9e7e53

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

#9e7e53

RGB

158, 126, 83

OKLCh

61.4% 0.071 74.0°

CIELAB (D50)

55.2, 8.6, 28.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.2; on black, Lc -36.4. 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 12.4 and 12.5 and 17.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.77:1 — large text only

Black text

5.56:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.56:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#917147 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

#9e7e53

protanopia

#828253 · ΔE00 12.4

deuteranopia

#888852 · ΔE00 12.5

tritanopia

#8f8f00 · ΔE00 17.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrecian Gold at ΔE00 0.283: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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