Treasures
#ba8b36
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ba8b36
RGB
186, 139, 54
OKLCh
66.7% 0.115 79.0°
CIELAB (D50)
61.4, 12.3, 50.7
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 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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 14.7 and 14.9 and 16.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.07:1 — large text only
Black text
6.83:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.83:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6e0c 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
#ba8b36
protanopia
#919137 · ΔE00 14.7
deuteranopia
#9b9b32 · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 16.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrading Post at ΔE00 0.736: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Trading PostΔE00 0.736 · #bb8d3b
- Burnished CopperΔE00 1.323 · #bb8833
- Hokey PokeyΔE00 1.367 · #bb8e34
- ArnicaΔE00 1.415 · #bf8f37
- Mayan GoldΔE00 1.452 · #b68c37
- Brass YellowΔE00 1.453 · #b58735
- TinselΔE00 1.459 · #b88a3e
- PizzaΔE00 1.517 · #bf8d3c
- Fervent BrassΔE00 1.822 · #bc9042
- University of California GoldΔE00 1.882 · #b78727
- Bread CrustΔE00 2.073 · #b78b43
- Wheat BeerΔE00 2.211 · #bf923b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.