Morrel
#ac8f6c
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
#ac8f6c
RGB
172, 143, 108
OKLCh
66.8% 0.060 71.8°
CIELAB (D50)
61.5, 7.6, 23.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.2; on black, Lc -44.5. 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 12.5 and 12.5 and 19.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.04:1 — large text only
Black text
6.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e7250 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
#ac8f6c
protanopia
#93936c · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#98986b · ΔE00 12.5
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 19.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArmagnac at ΔE00 0.996: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ArmagnacΔE00 0.996 · #ad916c
- Brown BranchΔE00 1.33 · #b08f6a
- Pale BrownΔE00 1.375 · #b1916e
- Beast HideΔE00 1.384 · #b08f69
- Old LeatherΔE00 1.503 · #a88b66
- Caramel GoldΔE00 1.57 · #b1936d
- River RoadΔE00 1.605 · #ae8d6b
- Brown RabbitΔE00 1.757 · #ae8e65
- Hiking TrailΔE00 1.803 · #a99170
- Buffalo BillΔE00 1.86 · #ae9274
- River OakΔE00 1.88 · #ae9474
- Rodeo RoundupΔE00 1.89 · #a68e6d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.