Incense
#af9a7e
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
#af9a7e
RGB
175, 154, 126
OKLCh
69.7% 0.046 74.8°
CIELAB (D50)
64.9, 4.8, 17.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 52.5; on black, Lc -49.3. 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 10.3 and 10.5 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#887459 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
#af9a7e
protanopia
#9d9d7e · ΔE00 10.3
deuteranopia
#a1a17d · ΔE00 10.5
tritanopia
#a5a500 · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMission Hills at ΔE00 0.791: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mission HillsΔE00 0.791 · #b29c7f
- SilestoneΔE00 1.319 · #b29e81
- Smallmouth BassΔE00 1.347 · #ac9a7e
- Artisan TanΔE00 1.373 · #b09879
- Tatami MatΔE00 1.469 · #af9d83
- Sand PebbleΔE00 1.515 · #b09d7f
- York BeigeΔE00 1.559 · #aa987f
- SerengetiΔE00 1.567 · #ab9579
- Song ThrushΔE00 1.71 · #af987f
- Cookie CrumbΔE00 2.022 · #b19778
- Wooded AcreΔE00 2.05 · #b59b7e
- Croque MonsieurΔE00 2.067 · #ac9877
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.