Ginger
#b06500
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b06500
RGB
176, 101, 0
OKLCh
57.9% 0.133 62.5°
CIELAB (D50)
50.7, 26.9, 58.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.5; on black, Lc -31.2. 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 23.2 and 23.5 and 25.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.46:1 — large text only
Black text
4.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af6400 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b06500
protanopia
#717104 · ΔE00 23.2
deuteranopia
#818100 · ΔE00 23.5
tritanopia
#909000 · ΔE00 25.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmber at ΔE00 0.761: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- UmberΔE00 0.761 · #b26400
- Ancient BrandyΔE00 1.627 · #aa6611
- Butter FudgeΔE00 1.808 · #aa6600
- Pumpkin SpiceΔE00 2.123 · #b2691a
- Orange BrownΔE00 2.208 · #b16002
- Brown OrangeΔE00 2.318 · #b96902
- Indocile TigerΔE00 2.682 · #b96b00
- Camel FurΔE00 2.698 · #bb6600
- Orangish BrownΔE00 2.766 · #b25f03
- SattleΔE00 3.271 · #aa6622
- Raw UmberΔE00 3.277 · #a75e09
- Sugar Coated AlmondΔE00 3.422 · #bb6611
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.