Pepperoni
#aa4400
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa4400
RGB
170, 68, 0
OKLCh
51.7% 0.149 44.7°
CIELAB (D50)
42.9, 40.9, 53.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.8; on black, Lc -23.0. 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 30.3 and 31.3 and 33.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.94:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.54:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.94:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa4400
protanopia
#585805 · ΔE00 30.3
deuteranopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 31.3
tritanopia
#838300 · ΔE00 33.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRusted Lock at ΔE00 2.223: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Rusted LockΔE00 2.223 · #aa4411
- Powdered CoffeeΔE00 2.339 · #a0450e
- Donkey KongΔE00 2.582 · #ab4210
- Beef BourguignonΔE00 2.715 · #b64701
- Skrag BrownΔE00 2.88 · #b04e0f
- Funky MonkeyΔE00 3.078 · #ad4e1a
- Cinnamon BunΔE00 3.197 · #ac4f06
- RustΔE00 3.232 · #a83c09
- OregonΔE00 3.541 · #9b4703
- BologneseΔE00 3.648 · #bb4400
- RouxΔE00 3.813 · #994400
- All the Leaves Are BrownΔE00 3.848 · #994411
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.