Mai Tai
#a56531
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a56531
RGB
165, 101, 49
OKLCh
56.8% 0.106 57.3°
CIELAB (D50)
49.4, 23.1, 39.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.1; on black, Lc -29.6. 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 21.7 and 22.6 and 25.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.51:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a56531
protanopia
#6f6f32 · ΔE00 21.7
deuteranopia
#7c7c2c · ΔE00 22.6
tritanopia
#898900 · ΔE00 25.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Ginger at ΔE00 1.029: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hot GingerΔE00 1.029 · #a36736
- Autumn SurpriseΔE00 1.515 · #ab662e
- Camel BrownΔE00 1.732 · #a56639
- Clove DyeΔE00 2.201 · #a96232
- Cathay SpiceΔE00 2.282 · #9d632d
- Gallstone YellowΔE00 2.398 · #a36629
- Scarecrow FrownΔE00 2.5 · #a55e2b
- Date Fruit BrownΔE00 2.502 · #af642b
- Tanooki Suit BrownΔE00 2.928 · #ae6c37
- Cockatrice BrownΔE00 2.97 · #a46422
- Plaguelands HazelΔE00 3.006 · #ad5f28
- Caramel KissesΔE00 3.023 · #9d652b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.