Sneaky Sesame
#896a46
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
#896a46
RGB
137, 106, 70
OKLCh
54.6% 0.065 70.0°
CIELAB (D50)
47.3, 9.2, 25.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.4; on black, Lc -27.3. 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 13.4 and 13.4 and 17.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.21:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#896a46
protanopia
#6e6e46 · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#747445 · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#7b7b00 · ΔE00 17.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCastle Moat at ΔE00 0.6: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Castle MoatΔE00 0.6 · #8b6b47
- Barrel AgedΔE00 1.054 · #8b6945
- Nom NomΔE00 1.293 · #866745
- Chester BrownΔE00 1.394 · #876b4b
- Texas BootsΔE00 1.413 · #8b6947
- Grecian HelmetΔE00 1.446 · #8c6d46
- Eagles NestΔE00 1.706 · #8a693f
- Tanned WoodΔE00 1.978 · #8f6e4b
- Ground CuminΔE00 2.015 · #8a6c42
- Steady BrownΔE00 2.056 · #8a6b4d
- Bright UmberΔE00 2.073 · #826644
- Cowboy TrailsΔE00 2.087 · #8d6b4b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.