Kombucha

#d89f66

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#d89f66

RGB

216, 159, 102

OKLCh

74.4% 0.100 65.2°

CIELAB (D50)

70.1, 17.1, 38.3

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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.5; on black, Lc -56.6. 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 18.3 and 18.9 and 23.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a16b32 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#d89f66

protanopia

#a7a766 · ΔE00 18.3

deuteranopia

#b2b263 · ΔE00 18.9

tritanopia

#bebe00 · ΔE00 23.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isButternut Pie at ΔE00 0.665: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Butternut PieΔE00 0.665 · #d99e66
  • Dechant Pear YellowΔE00 0.781 · #d79e62
  • RitzyΔE00 1.146 · #d79c5f
  • Golden AuraΔE00 1.346 · #d29e68
  • Caramelo DulceΔE00 1.449 · #d69e6b
  • Western SunriseΔE00 1.543 · #daa36f
  • CronutΔE00 1.702 · #d69f60
  • Desert CaravanΔE00 1.769 · #d3a169
  • Bakelite GoldΔE00 1.805 · #d7995d
  • Stunning GoldΔE00 1.86 · #da9a5d
  • Butterscotch SyrupΔE00 1.86 · #d9a05f
  • Prayer FlagΔE00 1.933 · #d59c6a

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.