Clay
#b66a50
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b66a50
RGB
182, 106, 80
OKLCh
60.3% 0.105 39.6°
CIELAB (D50)
53.2, 29.2, 28.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.6; on black, Lc -34.1. 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 25.5 and 27.1 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.06:1 — large text only
Black text
5.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ae6349 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
#b66a50
protanopia
#767651 · ΔE00 25.5
deuteranopia
#86864c · ΔE00 27.1
tritanopia
#969600 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrown Wood at ΔE00 1.002: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Brown WoodΔE00 1.002 · #b4674d
- Amber BrownΔE00 1.157 · #b46a4d
- Autumn IvyΔE00 1.23 · #b9674e
- Autumn LeafΔE00 1.359 · #b56a4c
- Santa FeΔE00 1.687 · #b16d52
- Deathclaw BrownΔE00 1.821 · #b36853
- Deep Clay RedΔE00 1.864 · #ae6a52
- Bear ClawΔE00 1.9 · #ae6b52
- BruschettaΔE00 1.947 · #b2654e
- ReynardΔE00 2.111 · #b46848
- Before WinterΔE00 2.139 · #bd6f56
- Warm CiderΔE00 2.172 · #bf6a52
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.