Driftwood
#a67a45
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a67a45
RGB
166, 122, 69
OKLCh
61.2% 0.089 70.0°
CIELAB (D50)
54.9, 13.3, 35.7
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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.6; on black, Lc -36.0. 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 15.5 and 15.8 and 19.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.82:1 — large text only
Black text
5.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6e39 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
#a67a45
protanopia
#808045 · ΔE00 15.5
deuteranopia
#898943 · ΔE00 15.8
tritanopia
#929200 · ΔE00 19.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInvitation Gold at ΔE00 1.238: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Invitation GoldΔE00 1.238 · #a6773f
- Goldenrod TeaΔE00 1.561 · #a17841
- Tosty CrustΔE00 1.581 · #a67e4b
- Cognac TintΔE00 1.712 · #a17b49
- Gallant GoldΔE00 1.729 · #a4763c
- Butter CaramelΔE00 1.805 · #a67a4c
- Tan BrownΔE00 1.806 · #ab7e4c
- Star Anise ScentΔE00 1.86 · #a77b4d
- Hidden MorelΔE00 1.86 · #aa7c4c
- Mediaeval GoldΔE00 1.912 · #ac7f48
- Caramelised PecanΔE00 2.043 · #a17b4d
- Rich SorrelΔE00 2.149 · #a87c3e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.