Gothic Gold
#bb852f
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb852f
RGB
187, 133, 47
OKLCh
65.5% 0.119 75.0°
CIELAB (D50)
59.9, 15.7, 52.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 86% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.3; on black, Lc -42.4. 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 16.9 and 17.2 and 18.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.23:1 — large text only
Black text
6.51:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.51:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16c06 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
#bb852f
protanopia
#8c8c30 · ΔE00 16.9
deuteranopia
#979729 · ΔE00 17.2
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 18.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGordal Olive at ΔE00 1.037: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gordal OliveΔE00 1.037 · #bf852b
- Burnished CopperΔE00 1.09 · #bb8833
- Mango BrownΔE00 1.119 · #bb8434
- Nouveau GreenΔE00 1.347 · #b88127
- Butter BaseΔE00 1.877 · #c28a35
- Simply SiennaΔE00 1.896 · #c2852e
- AndouilleΔE00 1.949 · #b58338
- Butter & SyrupΔE00 2.018 · #ba843a
- Brass YellowΔE00 2.092 · #b58735
- Colonel MustardΔE00 2.159 · #b68238
- Victorian CrownΔE00 2.18 · #c38b36
- MillionaireΔE00 2.246 · #b6843c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.