HueComb

Mink

#8a7561

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

#8a7561

RGB

138, 117, 97

OKLCh

57.7% 0.040 65.5°

CIELAB (D50)

50.8, 6.1, 14.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 only 31% 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 70.3; on black, Lc -31.3. 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 11.5 and 12.0 and 20.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.38:1 — large text only

Black text

4.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#88735f 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

#8a7561

protanopia

#787861 · ΔE00 11.5

deuteranopia

#7c7c60 · ΔE00 12.0

tritanopia

#808000 · ΔE00 20.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDusty Path at ΔE00 0.784: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Dusty PathΔE00 0.784 · #8c7763
  • Sepia TintΔE00 1.145 · #8c7562
  • Belgian SweetΔE00 1.248 · #8d7560
  • Fetched StickΔE00 1.344 · #86725f
  • Outdoor CafeΔE00 1.622 · #8d745e
  • Towering CliffsΔE00 1.636 · #897565
  • Noble CrownΔE00 1.661 · #8d755d
  • Cloudy CinnamonΔE00 1.827 · #87715f
  • Sage GreenΔE00 1.904 · #887766
  • Tree BranchΔE00 1.915 · #8a7362
  • MudslideΔE00 2.212 · #84735f
  • Aztec TempleΔE00 2.217 · #84705b

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