HueComb

Sesame

#baa38b

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#baa38b

RGB

186, 163, 139

OKLCh

72.9% 0.043 68.3°

CIELAB (D50)

68.6, 5.9, 15.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 only 27% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 47.5; on black, Lc -54.5. 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 11.5 and 11.9 and 22.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.41:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#89735c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#baa38b

protanopia

#a6a68b · ΔE00 11.5

deuteranopia

#aaaa8a · ΔE00 11.9

tritanopia

#afaf00 · ΔE00 22.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSands of Time at ΔE00 0.836: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.