Arrakis Spice
#bb8246
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb8246
RGB
187, 130, 70
OKLCh
65.2% 0.104 65.6°
CIELAB (D50)
59.4, 18.2, 41.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.0; on black, Lc -41.7. 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 18.8 and 19.4 and 22.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.28:1 — large text only
Black text
6.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a26b2d 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
#bb8246
protanopia
#8a8a47 · ΔE00 18.8
deuteranopia
#969642 · ΔE00 19.4
tritanopia
#a1a100 · ΔE00 22.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurmese Gold at ΔE00 0.552: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Burmese GoldΔE00 0.552 · #bc8143
- Kitsurubami BrownΔE00 0.851 · #bb8141
- CondimentΔE00 0.925 · #b98142
- Bronze StormΔE00 0.993 · #bc8040
- Sweet TeaΔE00 1.496 · #c18244
- Spruce YellowΔE00 1.647 · #b77d42
- Beeswax CandleΔE00 2.038 · #bf7e41
- Tiffany AmberΔE00 2.051 · #b58141
- Butterscotch GlazeΔE00 2.068 · #c48446
- Tuscan SunsetΔE00 2.078 · #bb7c3f
- Rookwood AmberΔE00 2.129 · #c08650
- Toffee TartΔE00 2.253 · #c08950
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.