HueComb

Majestic Elk

#ad9a84

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

#ad9a84

RGB

173, 154, 132

OKLCh

69.7% 0.038 71.2°

CIELAB (D50)

64.9, 4.6, 14.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 26% 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 52.6; on black, Lc -49.2. 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 9.9 and 10.3 and 21.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.72:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.73:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.73:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#86745f 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

#ad9a84

protanopia

#9c9c84 · ΔE00 9.9

deuteranopia

#a0a083 · ΔE00 10.3

tritanopia

#a4a400 · ΔE00 21.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWeathered Wood at ΔE00 1.165: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Weathered WoodΔE00 1.165 · #b19c86
  • QuicksandΔE00 1.195 · #ac9884
  • Adolescent RodentΔE00 1.3 · #a99681
  • Over the TaupeΔE00 1.574 · #b09d8a
  • York BeigeΔE00 1.597 · #aa987f
  • Mocha TanΔE00 1.703 · #ac9680
  • Song ThrushΔE00 1.726 · #af987f
  • Chocolate Cream PieΔE00 1.736 · #a89581
  • GrulloΔE00 1.752 · #a99a86
  • BroncoΔE00 1.81 · #a79781
  • RiverbankΔE00 1.893 · #ae9e87
  • Tatami MatΔE00 1.927 · #af9d83

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