Autumnal
#ad5928
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ad5928
RGB
173, 89, 40
OKLCh
55.6% 0.126 48.0°
CIELAB (D50)
47.7, 32.5, 43.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.9; on black, Lc -27.8. 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 26.8 and 28.3 and 31.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.24:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ad5928
protanopia
#676729 · ΔE00 26.8
deuteranopia
#7a7a20 · ΔE00 28.3
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 31.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaramelised Maple at ΔE00 0.412: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Caramelised MapleΔE00 0.412 · #ad5a28
- Stirland BattlemireΔE00 0.815 · #ae5a2c
- Wine BarrelΔE00 1.404 · #aa5522
- Spicy CinnamonΔE00 1.469 · #a85624
- Beef HotpotΔE00 1.726 · #a85d2e
- SiennaΔE00 2.014 · #a9561e
- Fiery OrangeΔE00 2.139 · #b1592f
- Monument ValleyΔE00 2.308 · #ad5c34
- GarfieldΔE00 2.356 · #a75429
- Fallen CanopyΔE00 2.428 · #b85824
- Plaguelands HazelΔE00 2.523 · #ad5f28
- Corn SnakeΔE00 2.566 · #ab6134
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.