HueComb

Komodo Dragon

#b38052

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

Hex

#b38052

RGB

179, 128, 82

OKLCh

64.1% 0.088 62.3°

CIELAB (D50)

58.1, 16.5, 33.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.7; on black, Lc -40.0. 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 17.9 and 18.4 and 23.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.43:1 — large text only

Black text

6.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9e6c3e 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

#b38052

protanopia

#878752 · ΔE00 17.9

deuteranopia

#91914f · ΔE00 18.4

tritanopia

#9c9c00 · ΔE00 23.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCinnamon Sand at ΔE00 1.009: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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