Ginger Dough
#b06d3b
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b06d3b
RGB
176, 109, 59
OKLCh
59.8% 0.107 55.6°
CIELAB (D50)
52.8, 24.0, 39.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.1; on black, Lc -33.6. 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 22.4 and 23.3 and 26.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.12:1 — large text only
Black text
5.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a96734 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
#b06d3b
protanopia
#77773c · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#858536 · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 26.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTanooki Suit Brown at ΔE00 1.001: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tanooki Suit BrownΔE00 1.001 · #ae6c37
- BourbonΔE00 1.084 · #af6c3e
- GingeryΔE00 1.159 · #b06c3e
- Pale CordovanΔE00 1.991 · #ad6e44
- Reno SandΔE00 2.075 · #b26e33
- Byzantine CopperΔE00 2.109 · #ab7141
- African SafariΔE00 2.206 · #b16b40
- Orange BalladΔE00 2.334 · #b56d41
- Spice CakeΔE00 2.506 · #b87243
- Ebony LipsΔE00 2.535 · #b06a40
- MincemeatΔE00 2.543 · #b66a3c
- TruepennyΔE00 2.749 · #b46c42
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.