HueComb

Funky Monkey

#ad4e1a

An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#ad4e1a

RGB

173, 78, 26

OKLCh

53.8% 0.139 45.2°

CIELAB (D50)

45.4, 37.7, 47.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 91% 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 76.3; on black, Lc -25.4. 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 29.2 and 30.9 and 33.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.41:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.88:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.41:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#ad4e1a

protanopia

#5f5f1c · ΔE00 29.2

deuteranopia

#747409 · ΔE00 30.9

tritanopia

#888800 · ΔE00 33.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSkrag Brown at ΔE00 1.71: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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