HueComb

Gramps Shoehorn

#a3896c

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

#a3896c

RGB

163, 137, 108

OKLCh

64.6% 0.052 69.8°

CIELAB (D50)

59.0, 7.0, 19.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.4; on black, Lc -41.3. 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 12.4 and 12.6 and 20.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.31:1 — large text only

Black text

6.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c7256 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

#a3896c

protanopia

#8c8c6c · ΔE00 12.4

deuteranopia

#91916b · ΔE00 12.6

tritanopia

#979700 · ΔE00 20.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCortez Chocolate at ΔE00 0.657: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cortez ChocolateΔE00 0.657 · #a4896a
  • MongooseΔE00 0.787 · #a58b6f
  • TanninΔE00 0.842 · #a68b6d
  • SandalΔE00 0.95 · #a3876a
  • Dark BlondΔE00 1.112 · #a68a6e
  • Soft BronzeΔE00 1.401 · #a18666
  • Double LatteΔE00 1.482 · #a78c71
  • ElkΔE00 1.509 · #a58d72
  • Water WheelΔE00 1.62 · #a28566
  • Mesa TanΔE00 1.824 · #a78b71
  • Crumbling CorkΔE00 1.862 · #a38565
  • ConfidenceΔE00 1.873 · #a98a6b

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