Banner Gold
#a28557
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
#a28557
RGB
162, 133, 87
OKLCh
63.3% 0.072 78.4°
CIELAB (D50)
57.5, 6.9, 29.1
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 62.3; on black, Lc -39.3. 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 11.0 and 11.1 and 16.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.48:1 — large text only
Black text
6.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7245 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a28557
protanopia
#898957 · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#8e8e56 · ΔE00 11.1
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 16.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLeather Tan at ΔE00 0.99: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Leather TanΔE00 0.99 · #a48454
- DijonΔE00 1.277 · #a18251
- Timber BeamΔE00 1.332 · #a0855c
- Bristle GrassΔE00 1.495 · #a28450
- Aztec BrickΔE00 1.496 · #9e8352
- ChicoryΔE00 1.503 · #a78658
- CuminΔE00 1.803 · #a58459
- Exhumed GoldΔE00 1.835 · #a78558
- Fall HarvestΔE00 1.843 · #a78a59
- WheatmealΔE00 1.975 · #9e8451
- Gold TangiersΔE00 2.029 · #9e865e
- Lavish GoldΔE00 2.044 · #a38154
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.