Macaroon
#b38b71
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b38b71
RGB
179, 139, 113
OKLCh
66.8% 0.061 54.4°
CIELAB (D50)
61.3, 13.0, 20.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.5; on black, Lc -44.3. 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 17.7 and 17.9 and 25.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.07:1 — large text only
Black text
6.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#956f55 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
#b38b71
protanopia
#909071 · ΔE00 17.7
deuteranopia
#989870 · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 25.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Topaz Ochre at ΔE00 0.99: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Light Topaz OchreΔE00 0.99 · #b08971
- Mangy MooseΔE00 1.196 · #b2896c
- HomelandΔE00 1.281 · #b18d75
- MapleΔE00 1.327 · #b88e72
- Dune DriftΔE00 1.399 · #b88d70
- Jama Masjid TaupeΔE00 1.436 · #b38b6d
- Renwick Rose BeigeΔE00 1.467 · #af8871
- Mojave DuskΔE00 1.984 · #b99178
- PralineΔE00 2.03 · #ad8b75
- Presidio PlazaΔE00 2.268 · #bb9174
- Pottery UrnΔE00 2.304 · #aa866e
- PonchoΔE00 2.33 · #b49073
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.