Maple Syrup
#bb9351
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb9351
RGB
187, 147, 81
OKLCh
68.7% 0.097 78.5°
CIELAB (D50)
63.7, 9.9, 40.5
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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.3; on black, Lc -47.5. 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 13.1 and 13.4 and 16.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#97702d 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
#bb9351
protanopia
#989851 · ΔE00 13.1
deuteranopia
#a0a04f · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#a8a800 · ΔE00 16.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLion’s Slumber at ΔE00 0.634: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lion’s SlumberΔE00 0.634 · #bb9252
- Different GoldΔE00 0.752 · #bc934d
- Alluvial IncaΔE00 1.186 · #bb934b
- Amber GoldΔE00 1.432 · #c19552
- Amaretto SourΔE00 1.543 · #c09856
- TussockΔE00 1.662 · #bf914b
- Bugle BoyΔE00 1.688 · #bb8f4f
- Townhouse TanΔE00 1.823 · #c19859
- Where Buffalo RoamΔE00 1.823 · #c19851
- Yellow AcornΔE00 1.877 · #b68d4c
- Harvest BlessingΔE00 1.888 · #ba8e4e
- RadianceΔE00 2.077 · #bb9157
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.