Caribou
#816c5e
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#816c5e
RGB
129, 108, 94
OKLCh
54.7% 0.034 55.6°
CIELAB (D50)
47.4, 6.9, 11.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.3; on black, Lc -27.4. 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 11.9 and 12.7 and 22.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.24:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#816c5e
protanopia
#6f6f5e · ΔE00 11.9
deuteranopia
#73735d · ΔE00 12.7
tritanopia
#777700 · ΔE00 22.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBannister Brown at ΔE00 0.391: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bannister BrownΔE00 0.391 · #806b5d
- Lye TintedΔE00 0.657 · #7f6b5d
- Antique EarthΔE00 1.314 · #7e6c5f
- Nut CrackerΔE00 1.381 · #816c5b
- Summer SparrowΔE00 1.583 · #816e63
- WarriorΔE00 1.604 · #7d685b
- Dusty ChestnutΔE00 2.017 · #847163
- Whiskey BarrelΔE00 2.04 · #85705f
- Roman CoffeeΔE00 2.096 · #7d6757
- Rikyū BrownΔE00 2.133 · #826b58
- PipeΔE00 2.138 · #857165
- RuskieΔE00 2.163 · #866c5e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.