HueComb

Nougat

#ae8a78

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

#ae8a78

RGB

174, 138, 120

OKLCh

66.3% 0.051 47.9°

CIELAB (D50)

60.6, 12.2, 15.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 28% 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 58.3; on black, Lc -43.4. 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 17.4 and 18.3 and 26.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.13:1 — large text only

Black text

6.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#926f5e 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

#ae8a78

protanopia

#8f8f78 · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#969677 · ΔE00 18.3

tritanopia

#9d9d00 · ΔE00 26.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVagabond at ΔE00 1.043: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • VagabondΔE00 1.043 · #aa8877
  • Café RenverséΔE00 1.204 · #ae8774
  • MagnitudeΔE00 1.266 · #ae8d7b
  • HomesteadΔE00 1.346 · #ac8674
  • Redend PointΔE00 1.708 · #ae8e7e
  • Coyote TracksΔE00 1.812 · #b08f7f
  • Plum Blossom DyeΔE00 1.832 · #b48a76
  • Caramel BrownΔE00 1.927 · #b18775
  • PralineΔE00 1.967 · #ad8b75
  • Renwick Rose BeigeΔE00 1.978 · #af8871
  • Tribal PotteryΔE00 2.024 · #a78876
  • Painted SkiesΔE00 2.111 · #b28774

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