Cut the Mustard
#ba7f38
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ba7f38
RGB
186, 127, 56
OKLCh
64.3% 0.113 68.2°
CIELAB (D50)
58.4, 18.7, 46.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.3; on black, Lc -40.4. 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 19.0 and 19.5 and 21.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.40:1 — large text only
Black text
6.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a46a1f 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
#ba7f38
protanopia
#878739 · ΔE00 19.0
deuteranopia
#939333 · ΔE00 19.5
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 21.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Clay at ΔE00 0.999: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fresh ClayΔE00 0.999 · #be8035
- Monarch GoldΔE00 1.251 · #b7813c
- Cool Cream SpiritΔE00 1.302 · #b88035
- Autumn FestΔE00 1.393 · #be7d33
- Cider ToddyΔE00 1.411 · #b98033
- Farmhouse OchreΔE00 1.438 · #bd8339
- Kitsurubami BrownΔE00 1.459 · #bb8141
- CondimentΔE00 1.541 · #b98142
- Mud YellowΔE00 1.603 · #c18136
- Bronze StormΔE00 1.609 · #bc8040
- ToothpickΔE00 1.703 · #bf843b
- Gilded GoldΔE00 1.817 · #b58037
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.