HueComb

Meteor

#bb7431

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

Hex

#bb7431

RGB

187, 116, 49

OKLCh

62.3% 0.120 60.5°

CIELAB (D50)

55.9, 24.7, 47.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 64.4; on black, Lc -37.3. 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 22.6 and 23.3 and 25.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.71:1 — large text only

Black text

5.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ac6620 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

#bb7431

protanopia

#7f7f32 · ΔE00 22.6

deuteranopia

#8e8e2a · ΔE00 23.3

tritanopia

#9c9c00 · ΔE00 25.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCopper at ΔE00 0.802: 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.