Chai Tea
#a97b2d
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a97b2d
RGB
169, 123, 45
OKLCh
61.5% 0.109 77.0°
CIELAB (D50)
55.3, 12.9, 47.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.1; on black, Lc -36.5. 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 15.1 and 15.3 and 16.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.78:1 — large text only
Black text
5.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6e1d 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
#a97b2d
protanopia
#81812e · ΔE00 15.1
deuteranopia
#8b8b29 · ΔE00 15.3
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 16.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRelease the Hounds at ΔE00 0.785: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Release the HoundsΔE00 0.785 · #ac7c2e
- Fluor SparΔE00 1.315 · #a77d35
- BilletΔE00 1.853 · #ad7c35
- Bronze LeafΔE00 1.918 · #aa8031
- Natural EvolutionΔE00 2.125 · #a27833
- El DoradoΔE00 2.202 · #a97f3c
- Hot ToddyΔE00 2.487 · #a7752c
- Burnt HoneyΔE00 2.546 · #a87f28
- Organic StyleΔE00 2.617 · #a67e3e
- Bird’s-EyeΔE00 2.723 · #ab823d
- FalafelΔE00 2.823 · #aa7711
- Rich SorrelΔE00 2.829 · #a87c3e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.