Donkey Kong
#ab4210
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ab4210
RGB
171, 66, 16
OKLCh
51.7% 0.149 41.4°
CIELAB (D50)
42.8, 42.3, 49.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 79.0; on black, Lc -22.8. 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 31.1 and 32.9 and 35.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.97:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.52:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.97:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ab4210
protanopia
#565613 · ΔE00 31.1
deuteranopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 32.9
tritanopia
#838300 · ΔE00 35.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRusted Lock at ΔE00 0.567: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rusted LockΔE00 0.567 · #aa4411
- RustΔE00 1.532 · #a83c09
- Martian IroncrustΔE00 2.465 · #b7410e
- PepperoniΔE00 2.582 · #aa4400
- Powdered CoffeeΔE00 2.814 · #a0450e
- Burnt SiennaΔE00 2.961 · #a93400
- MuddyΔE00 3.035 · #a13905
- Funky MonkeyΔE00 3.12 · #ad4e1a
- Pindjur RedΔE00 3.449 · #bb4411
- HamburgerΔE00 3.527 · #a34e25
- Azshara VeinΔE00 3.543 · #b13916
- Potter’s ClayΔE00 3.547 · #a64826
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.