Lucky Penny
#bc6f37
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bc6f37
RGB
188, 111, 55
OKLCh
61.6% 0.120 54.2°
CIELAB (D50)
54.9, 27.9, 43.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.6; on black, Lc -36.1. 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 24.6 and 25.6 and 28.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.84:1 — large text only
Black text
5.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af632a 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
#bc6f37
protanopia
#7b7b38 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#8b8b31 · ΔE00 25.6
tritanopia
#9b9b00 · ΔE00 28.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTiger Stripe at ΔE00 0.987: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tiger StripeΔE00 0.987 · #bf6f39
- Carrot CakeΔE00 1.232 · #bf6f31
- Warm Cream SpiritΔE00 1.98 · #c36c2d
- Tomato CreamΔE00 1.987 · #bf753b
- Spice CakeΔE00 2.179 · #b87243
- Ochre PigmentΔE00 2.4 · #c77135
- ZestΔE00 2.412 · #c6723b
- CrayΔE00 2.455 · #bc763c
- CajetaΔE00 2.489 · #c46d29
- Acorn SpiceΔE00 2.507 · #b87439
- Caramelised PeachΔE00 2.585 · #c56f2b
- Golden OchreΔE00 2.59 · #c56f3b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.