HueComb

French Oak

#bb9e7c

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bb9e7c

RGB

187, 158, 124

OKLCh

71.7% 0.058 71.1°

CIELAB (D50)

67.1, 7.4, 22.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 only 38% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.6; on black, Lc -52.3. 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 12.5 and 12.6 and 20.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d7251 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

#bb9e7c

protanopia

#a2a27c · ΔE00 12.5

deuteranopia

#a7a77b · ΔE00 12.6

tritanopia

#adad00 · ΔE00 20.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCocoa Nib at ΔE00 0.457: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cocoa NibΔE00 0.457 · #bc9f7e
  • CartonΔE00 0.665 · #bb9e7e
  • Oxford StreetΔE00 0.696 · #bda07f
  • Woolly MammothΔE00 1.236 · #bb9c7c
  • Real CorkΔE00 1.518 · #c1a17f
  • Modern HistoryΔE00 1.561 · #bea27d
  • Coriander PowderΔE00 1.592 · #ba9c75
  • Almond ToastΔE00 1.656 · #bf9e77
  • Tailored TanΔE00 1.741 · #bd9d7e
  • CorkyΔE00 1.748 · #bd9b78
  • Woven WickerΔE00 1.769 · #b99974
  • AlmandineΔE00 1.81 · #c2a37e

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