Dune Spice
#b66e45
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b66e45
RGB
182, 110, 69
OKLCh
60.9% 0.107 49.4°
CIELAB (D50)
54.0, 26.5, 35.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.7; on black, Lc -35.0. 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 23.9 and 25.2 and 29.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.96:1 — large text only
Black text
5.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac653c 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
#b66e45
protanopia
#797946 · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#888841 · ΔE00 25.2
tritanopia
#979700 · ΔE00 29.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTruepenny at ΔE00 0.798: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TruepennyΔE00 0.798 · #b46c42
- Orange BalladΔE00 0.928 · #b56d41
- Pottery ClayΔE00 1.253 · #b9714a
- ThanksgivingΔE00 1.408 · #b56e4a
- Tufted LeatherΔE00 1.528 · #b96c46
- Oak PalaceΔE00 1.571 · #bb6b41
- African SafariΔE00 1.595 · #b16b40
- MincemeatΔE00 1.703 · #b66a3c
- Not yet CaramelΔE00 1.787 · #b1714c
- Ebony LipsΔE00 1.828 · #b06a40
- Orange LilyΔE00 2.062 · #be7249
- KhardicΔE00 2.116 · #b16840
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.