Hazel
#a36b4b
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a36b4b
RGB
163, 107, 75
OKLCh
58.0% 0.085 50.2°
CIELAB (D50)
50.8, 20.4, 27.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.4; on black, Lc -31.3. 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 20.9 and 21.5 and 27.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.41:1 — large text only
Black text
4.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16a4a 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
#a36b4b
protanopia
#73734b · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#7f7f48 · ΔE00 21.5
tritanopia
#8a8a00 · ΔE00 27.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFoxfire Brown at ΔE00 1.121: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Foxfire BrownΔE00 1.121 · #9f6949
- Drum SoloΔE00 1.454 · #a66e4b
- Brown EyesΔE00 1.53 · #9e6b4a
- Vintage PotteryΔE00 1.582 · #a66c47
- Maple GlazeΔE00 1.778 · #a76944
- Slick MudΔE00 1.9 · #a66e49
- Smouldering CopperΔE00 1.912 · #aa6e4b
- Argan OilΔE00 2.07 · #9d6646
- Antique CopperΔE00 2.123 · #9e6649
- Flickering FlameΔE00 2.172 · #aa6e49
- Auric CopperΔE00 2.252 · #aa6a44
- BranΔE00 2.29 · #a9704c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.