HueComb

Falafel

#aa7711

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#aa7711

RGB

170, 119, 17

OKLCh

60.6% 0.122 77.5°

CIELAB (D50)

54.2, 14.8, 56.7

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 uses 96% 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 66.4; on black, Lc -35.3. 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 16.1 and 16.2 and 17.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.92:1 — large text only

Black text

5.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9f6d00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#aa7711

protanopia

#7e7e13 · ΔE00 16.1

deuteranopia

#888802 · ΔE00 16.2

tritanopia

#939300 · ΔE00 17.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBronze at ΔE00 2.021: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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