Honey Bunny

#dbb881

An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#dbb881

RGB

219, 184, 129

OKLCh

80.1% 0.082 78.5°

CIELAB (D50)

77.0, 7.6, 32.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.5; on black, Lc -67.0. 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 11.6 and 11.8 and 18.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.88:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#92713c 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

#dbb881

protanopia

#bcbc81 · ΔE00 11.6

deuteranopia

#c3c380 · ΔE00 11.8

tritanopia

#caca00 · ΔE00 18.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrik Dough at ΔE00 0.363: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Brik DoughΔE00 0.363 · #dab77f
  • Honey RobberΔE00 1.078 · #dfbb86
  • Death Valley BeigeΔE00 1.205 · #ddbb88
  • Soft ChamoisΔE00 1.206 · #dbb67a
  • AmbitiousΔE00 1.401 · #dfb77d
  • BarleyΔE00 1.421 · #d5b37e
  • Wheat BreadΔE00 1.504 · #dfbb7e
  • Bag of GoldΔE00 1.513 · #e1bd88
  • Egyptian TempleΔE00 1.656 · #d6b378
  • Regency CreamΔE00 1.67 · #e1bb87
  • Warm MuffinΔE00 1.871 · #e1be8b
  • Cashmere WrapΔE00 1.942 · #d6b484

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