Whiskey Sour
#d4915d
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d4915d
RGB
212, 145, 93
OKLCh
71.2% 0.106 57.8°
CIELAB (D50)
66.2, 22.1, 38.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.0; on black, Lc -50.9. 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 21.4 and 22.4 and 27.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.62:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a76833 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
#d4915d
protanopia
#9a9a5e · ΔE00 21.4
deuteranopia
#a8a85a · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#b6b600 · ΔE00 27.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGates of Gold at ΔE00 1.277: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gates of GoldΔE00 1.277 · #d2935d
- Persian OrangeΔE00 1.317 · #d99058
- WhiskeyΔE00 1.547 · #d29062
- Glazed PecanΔE00 1.669 · #d19564
- Pumpkin PatchΔE00 1.679 · #d59466
- Spiced PumpkinΔE00 1.725 · #d88d56
- Gold EarthΔE00 1.752 · #db9663
- Honey FungusΔE00 1.772 · #d18e54
- Napa SunsetΔE00 1.898 · #cd915c
- Ginger CrispΔE00 1.96 · #ce915a
- Amber WaveΔE00 2.137 · #d78b55
- BestigorΔE00 2.17 · #d38a57
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.