Mulled Cider

#a18162

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

#a18162

RGB

161, 129, 98

OKLCh

62.6% 0.059 65.5°

CIELAB (D50)

56.5, 9.5, 21.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

12 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 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.6; on black, Lc -38.1. 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 14.4 and 14.4 and 20.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.60:1 — large text only

Black text

5.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#907152 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

#a18162

protanopia

#858562 · ΔE00 14.4

deuteranopia

#8b8b61 · ΔE00 14.4

tritanopia

#929200 · 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 isHopsack at ΔE00 1.042: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

HopsackΔE00 1.042 · #9e8163
Spiced HoneyΔE00 1.044 · #a38061
Sorrell BrownΔE00 1.099 · #9d7f61
Weaver’s ToolΔE00 1.161 · #9d7f62
New ChestnutΔE00 1.199 · #a28367
Teddy BearΔE00 1.403 · #9d8164
Crumbling CorkΔE00 1.529 · #a38565
Outdoor LandΔE00 1.577 · #a07d5e
Water WheelΔE00 1.602 · #a28566
Wooden SwingΔE00 1.685 · #a58563
SandpitΔE00 1.85 · #9e7c5e
WestminsterΔE00 1.976 · #9c7c5b

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