Peanut Butter
#be893f
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#be893f
RGB
190, 137, 63
OKLCh
66.8% 0.111 72.8°
CIELAB (D50)
61.4, 15.5, 46.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.4; on black, Lc -44.3. 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 16.9 and 17.3 and 19.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.07:1 — large text only
Black text
6.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a06c1d 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
#be893f
protanopia
#909040 · ΔE00 16.9
deuteranopia
#9b9b3b · ΔE00 17.3
tritanopia
#a6a600 · ΔE00 19.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Slumber at ΔE00 1.201: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Golden SlumberΔE00 1.201 · #b98841
- Antiquarian GoldΔE00 1.34 · #ba8a45
- Golden LeafΔE00 1.511 · #c48b42
- Butter & SyrupΔE00 1.582 · #ba843a
- Garden OchreΔE00 1.644 · #c38e46
- Amber EssenceΔE00 1.645 · #ba843c
- Amber SiennaΔE00 1.762 · #c0863f
- Mango BrownΔE00 1.774 · #bb8434
- Butter BaseΔE00 1.79 · #c28a35
- Victorian CrownΔE00 1.912 · #c38b36
- Holiday WaffleΔE00 1.933 · #b78846
- CentraΔE00 1.959 · #c08f45
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.