Brandy
#dcb68a
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dcb68a
RGB
220, 182, 138
OKLCh
79.9% 0.073 70.6°
CIELAB (D50)
76.7, 9.7, 27.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.9; on black, Lc -66.6. 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 13.6 and 13.8 and 21.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#937046 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
#dcb68a
protanopia
#bbbb8a · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#c2c289 · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#caca00 · ΔE00 21.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isButterscotch Sundae at ΔE00 0.718: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Butterscotch SundaeΔE00 0.718 · #dbb486
- Painted AshΔE00 1.232 · #ddba8f
- BurlywoodΔE00 1.422 · #deb887
- CalicoΔE00 1.561 · #d5b185
- JerboaΔE00 1.598 · #dfb886
- PanchoΔE00 1.688 · #dfb992
- Cellini GoldΔE00 1.752 · #ddb582
- Buttery LeatherΔE00 1.758 · #d4b185
- Desert DustΔE00 1.791 · #e2bb8a
- SheepskinΔE00 1.841 · #d9b28b
- Raw PeanutΔE00 1.887 · #e4bc8c
- SummerwoodΔE00 1.926 · #d4b28b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.