Hot Curry
#815b28
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#815b28
RGB
129, 91, 40
OKLCh
50.1% 0.084 71.7°
CIELAB (D50)
42.0, 12.1, 35.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.2; on black, Lc -21.7. 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 14.4 and 14.6 and 16.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.46:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#815b28
protanopia
#606028 · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#686825 · ΔE00 14.6
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 16.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSleek Otter at ΔE00 0.724: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sleek OtterΔE00 0.724 · #825d2a
- Bronze BrownΔE00 1.367 · #825e2f
- TreacleΔE00 2.289 · #885d2d
- Lizard BrownΔE00 3.157 · #795419
- GrizzlyΔE00 3.237 · #885818
- Rusty CoinΔE00 3.313 · #8d5f2c
- RubberΔE00 3.361 · #815d37
- BreenΔE00 3.564 · #795d34
- QuiverΔE00 3.577 · #886037
- Arable BrownΔE00 3.712 · #7a552e
- KumeraΔE00 3.835 · #886221
- Trojan Horse BrownΔE00 3.92 · #775020
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.