Sweet Potato
#d87c3b
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d87c3b
RGB
216, 124, 59
OKLCh
67.6% 0.139 53.0°
CIELAB (D50)
61.6, 33.0, 50.2
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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.1; on black, Lc -44.7. 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 27.3 and 28.6 and 31.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.06:1 — large text only
Black text
6.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b85f16 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
#d87c3b
protanopia
#8a8a3c · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#9e9e33 · ΔE00 28.6
tritanopia
#b1b100 · ΔE00 31.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFired Up at ΔE00 1.174: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fired UpΔE00 1.174 · #d37a38
- Decaying LeafΔE00 1.217 · #d57835
- Jaffa OrangeΔE00 1.29 · #d87839
- Orpiment OrangeΔE00 1.446 · #d17c3f
- Sandy PeppersΔE00 1.464 · #df7b35
- Marquis OrangeΔE00 1.573 · #d2783a
- Orange OchreΔE00 1.693 · #da7631
- Maple LeafΔE00 1.72 · #d17b41
- Snobby ShoreΔE00 1.736 · #dd7733
- Carrot StickΔE00 1.923 · #df7836
- TopazΔE00 2.064 · #cf7e40
- Pumpkin BreadΔE00 2.086 · #d27d46
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.