In a Nutshell
#b98052
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b98052
RGB
185, 128, 82
OKLCh
64.8% 0.094 59.0°
CIELAB (D50)
58.8, 19.0, 34.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.8; on black, Lc -40.9. 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 19.5 and 20.2 and 25.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.35:1 — large text only
Black text
6.27:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.27:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a26a3c 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
#b98052
protanopia
#888853 · ΔE00 19.5
deuteranopia
#94944f · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#9f9f00 · ΔE00 25.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCinnamon Sand at ΔE00 0.778: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cinnamon SandΔE00 0.778 · #b78153
- Southern Barrens MudΔE00 1.18 · #b98258
- Okonomiyaki BrownΔE00 1.217 · #ba7d4c
- LimoniteΔE00 1.496 · #be7f51
- Komodo DragonΔE00 1.671 · #b38052
- Cowboy HatΔE00 1.692 · #b27d50
- Chai SpiceΔE00 2.148 · #bd7c4f
- Choco BiscuitΔE00 2.185 · #b4835b
- Mulling SpiceΔE00 2.33 · #c18654
- DeerΔE00 2.392 · #ba8759
- Caramel SauceΔE00 2.511 · #b3804d
- Cattle DriveΔE00 2.558 · #bb7b51
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.