Titian Red
#bd5620
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bd5620
RGB
189, 86, 32
OKLCh
57.5% 0.147 44.6°
CIELAB (D50)
49.6, 40.2, 49.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 71.6; on black, Lc -30.0. 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 30.6 and 32.3 and 35.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.52:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bd5620
protanopia
#686822 · ΔE00 30.6
deuteranopia
#808010 · ΔE00 32.3
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 35.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTaisha Brown at ΔE00 0.55: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Taisha BrownΔE00 0.55 · #bb5520
- Roland-GarrosΔE00 0.752 · #bb5522
- Fallen CanopyΔE00 1.131 · #b85824
- Grieving DaylilyΔE00 1.413 · #c3571d
- BloodhoundΔE00 2.348 · #bb5511
- Brick OrangeΔE00 2.88 · #c14a09
- Crustose LichenΔE00 2.941 · #c04e01
- Gold Varnish BrownΔE00 2.974 · #b95e33
- Rust OrangeΔE00 3.013 · #c45508
- Dark OrangeΔE00 3.071 · #c65102
- Boho CopperΔE00 3.105 · #b96033
- Red PandaΔE00 3.151 · #c34b1b
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.