Hazelnut

#a8715a

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

#a8715a

RGB

168, 113, 90

OKLCh

60.0% 0.078 43.5°

CIELAB (D50)

53.1, 20.4, 22.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.7; on black, Lc -34.0. 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 22.0 and 22.4 and 29.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.06:1 — large text only

Black text

5.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a06a53 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

#a8715a

protanopia

#79795a · ΔE00 22.0

deuteranopia

#848458 · ΔE00 22.4

tritanopia

#909000 · ΔE00 29.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarron Canela at ΔE00 1.22: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Marron CanelaΔE00 1.22 · #a7735a
  • Orange FlambeΔE00 1.239 · #a96f55
  • Arizona ClayΔE00 1.348 · #ad735a
  • Chic BrickΔE00 1.4 · #a4725a
  • Clay CourtΔE00 1.95 · #a9765d
  • Earth ToneΔE00 2.1 · #a06e57
  • Airbrushed CopperΔE00 2.232 · #aa6c51
  • Decorous AmberΔE00 2.238 · #ac7559
  • Glazed PotΔE00 2.246 · #ad7356
  • Copper BeechΔE00 2.269 · #b1715a
  • Tan WagonΔE00 2.499 · #a3755d
  • Mojave SunsetΔE00 2.603 · #aa6a53

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