HueComb

Bakery Brown

#ab9078

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ab9078

RGB

171, 144, 120

OKLCh

67.2% 0.047 63.5°

CIELAB (D50)

61.8, 7.8, 16.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 23 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 31% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.7; on black, Lc -45.1. 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 13.4 and 13.8 and 22.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.00:1 — large text only

Black text

6.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c725b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#ab9078

protanopia

#939378 · ΔE00 13.4

deuteranopia

#999977 · ΔE00 13.8

tritanopia

#9e9e00 · ΔE00 22.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNearly Brown at ΔE00 0.831: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Nearly BrownΔE00 0.831 · #a88e76
  • Café AméricaineΔE00 0.943 · #aa8e74
  • Saddle UpΔE00 0.954 · #ab927a
  • Craftsman BrownΔE00 0.978 · #ae9278
  • Pioneer VillageΔE00 1.005 · #aa9076
  • CocolocoΔE00 1.229 · #aa8f7a
  • Elegant EarthΔE00 1.347 · #ac8e73
  • Dormer BrownΔE00 1.405 · #ad947c
  • Rikyūshira BrownΔE00 1.438 · #b0927a
  • SandriftΔE00 1.481 · #af937d
  • Bungalow BrownΔE00 1.527 · #ad947b
  • Warm TaupeΔE00 1.536 · #ab917d

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