Hamtaro Brown

#b07426

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#b07426

RGB

176, 116, 38

OKLCh

60.9% 0.117 68.6°

CIELAB (D50)

54.3, 19.6, 50.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 88% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.3; on black, Lc -35.4. 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 19.3 and 19.7 and 21.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.91:1 — large text only

Black text

5.37:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.37:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a56a18 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

#b07426

protanopia

#7d7d27 · ΔE00 19.3

deuteranopia

#89891f · ΔE00 19.7

tritanopia

#959500 · ΔE00 21.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isToffee Sauce at ΔE00 0.28: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Toffee SauceΔE00 0.28 · #b17426
  • ButterbeerΔE00 2.101 · #af7934
  • Sweet Mulled CiderΔE00 2.147 · #b57312
  • Fireside ChatΔE00 2.255 · #b87427
  • Deer LeatherΔE00 2.321 · #ac7434
  • Buff LeatherΔE00 2.347 · #aa7733
  • MandalayΔE00 2.353 · #b57b2e
  • Enchanting GingerΔE00 2.508 · #ac7435
  • Pirate GoldΔE00 2.513 · #ba782a
  • Buckthorn BrownΔE00 2.549 · #a76f1f
  • Hot ToddyΔE00 2.58 · #a7752c
  • Milvus Milvus OrangeΔE00 2.598 · #bb7722

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