Oak Palace

#bb6b41

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bb6b41

RGB

187, 107, 65

OKLCh

60.9% 0.117 47.3°

CIELAB (D50)

53.9, 30.0, 37.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 70% 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 25.8 and 27.3 and 31.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.97:1 — large text only

Black text

5.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b16238 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

#bb6b41

protanopia

#787842 · ΔE00 25.8

deuteranopia

#89893c · ΔE00 27.3

tritanopia

#999900 · ΔE00 31.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpiced Nut at ΔE00 0.666: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Spiced NutΔE00 0.666 · #bc693e
  • Ripe PeachΔE00 1.098 · #be6a3c
  • Tufted LeatherΔE00 1.106 · #b96c46
  • Dune SpiceΔE00 1.571 · #b66e45
  • Screaming Bell MetalΔE00 1.705 · #c16f45
  • TruepennyΔE00 1.743 · #b46c42
  • MincemeatΔE00 1.788 · #b66a3c
  • AdobeΔE00 1.858 · #bd6c48
  • Orange BalladΔE00 1.911 · #b56d41
  • Pottery ClayΔE00 2.016 · #b9714a
  • ThanksgivingΔE00 2.103 · #b56e4a
  • Orange LilyΔE00 2.163 · #be7249

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