Weissbier
#b3833b
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b3833b
RGB
179, 131, 59
OKLCh
64.3% 0.106 74.8°
CIELAB (D50)
58.6, 13.7, 45.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.0; on black, Lc -40.7. 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 15.7 and 16.0 and 18.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.37:1 — large text only
Black text
6.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9d6e22 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
#b3833b
protanopia
#89893c · ΔE00 15.7
deuteranopia
#939337 · ΔE00 16.0
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 18.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAndouille at ΔE00 0.632: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AndouilleΔE00 0.632 · #b58338
- MillionaireΔE00 0.757 · #b6843c
- Honeysuckle BlastΔE00 0.77 · #b3833f
- Colonel MustardΔE00 1.039 · #b68238
- Gilded GoldΔE00 1.478 · #b58037
- Amber RomanceΔE00 1.519 · #b18140
- Waxen MoonΔE00 1.53 · #b38241
- Butter & SyrupΔE00 1.767 · #ba843a
- Golden SlumberΔE00 1.797 · #b98841
- Fields of GloryΔE00 1.866 · #b18446
- Amber EssenceΔE00 1.871 · #ba843c
- Holiday WaffleΔE00 1.964 · #b78846
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.