Brown Sugar
#ab764e
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ab764e
RGB
171, 118, 78
OKLCh
61.1% 0.087 57.3°
CIELAB (D50)
54.6, 18.1, 30.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.0; on black, Lc -35.7. 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 19.1 and 19.7 and 24.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.87:1 — large text only
Black text
5.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9f6b43 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
#ab764e
protanopia
#7d7d4e · ΔE00 19.1
deuteranopia
#88884b · ΔE00 19.7
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 24.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNew England Roast at ΔE00 1.76: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- New England RoastΔE00 1.76 · #aa7755
- Copper MineΔE00 1.788 · #b2764c
- Copper MountainΔE00 1.916 · #ab714a
- MeerkatΔE00 1.976 · #ab7647
- Balthasar GoldΔE00 2.002 · #a47552
- Baked BeanΔE00 2.059 · #b2754d
- Dwarf PonyΔE00 2.11 · #af7b57
- CashewΔE00 2.138 · #a47149
- Burnt AlmondΔE00 2.301 · #b0724a
- Leather ChairΔE00 2.321 · #a3754c
- Apple CinnamonΔE00 2.35 · #a67950
- StroopwafelΔE00 2.455 · #a86f48
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.