Butterbeer
#af7934
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#af7934
RGB
175, 121, 52
OKLCh
61.8% 0.108 69.8°
CIELAB (D50)
55.5, 16.9, 45.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.8; on black, Lc -36.9. 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 17.8 and 18.2 and 20.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.75:1 — large text only
Black text
5.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16c24 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
#af7934
protanopia
#818135 · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#8c8c30 · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#979700 · ΔE00 20.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDurian at ΔE00 1.146: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- DurianΔE00 1.146 · #b07939
- Buff LeatherΔE00 1.263 · #aa7733
- BilletΔE00 1.709 · #ad7c35
- MandalayΔE00 1.743 · #b57b2e
- KaolinΔE00 2.035 · #ad7d40
- Deer LeatherΔE00 2.074 · #ac7434
- Vintage LincolnΔE00 2.099 · #b07b40
- Hamtaro BrownΔE00 2.101 · #b07426
- Toffee SauceΔE00 2.176 · #b17426
- Enchanting GingerΔE00 2.199 · #ac7435
- Hot ToddyΔE00 2.41 · #a7752c
- Weapon BronzeΔE00 2.499 · #b47b27
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.