Whiskey
#d29062
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d29062
RGB
210, 144, 98
OKLCh
70.9% 0.101 55.2°
CIELAB (D50)
65.8, 22.1, 34.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.5; on black, Lc -50.4. 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 21.5 and 22.5 and 28.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.66:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.91:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.91:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a7683a 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
#d29062
protanopia
#999963 · ΔE00 21.5
deuteranopia
#a7a75f · ΔE00 22.5
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 28.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPumpkin Patch at ΔE00 1.132: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pumpkin PatchΔE00 1.132 · #d59466
- Whiskey SourΔE00 1.547 · #d4915d
- Orange PekoeΔE00 1.562 · #cb8d5f
- LonghornΔE00 1.686 · #d88e5f
- GroundedΔE00 1.761 · #d18c62
- Copper CoveΔE00 1.803 · #d89166
- BestigorΔE00 2.053 · #d38a57
- Glazed PecanΔE00 2.141 · #d19564
- Bright SiennaΔE00 2.253 · #d68a59
- Pinch of CloveΔE00 2.26 · #d2916b
- Santa Fe SunriseΔE00 2.262 · #cc9469
- Gold EarthΔE00 2.301 · #db9663
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.