Barrel Aged
#8b6945
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
#8b6945
RGB
139, 105, 69
OKLCh
54.6% 0.067 67.3°
CIELAB (D50)
47.3, 10.6, 25.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.5; on black, Lc -27.2. 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 14.4 and 18.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.99:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.20:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.99:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8b6945
protanopia
#6d6d45 · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#747443 · ΔE00 14.4
tritanopia
#7b7b00 · ΔE00 18.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTexas Boots at ΔE00 0.641: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Texas BootsΔE00 0.641 · #8b6947
- Castle MoatΔE00 0.911 · #8b6b47
- Sneaky SesameΔE00 1.054 · #896a46
- English SaddleΔE00 1.405 · #8e6947
- Nom NomΔE00 1.442 · #866745
- Cowboy TrailsΔE00 1.56 · #8d6b4b
- Slippery StoneΔE00 1.564 · #8d6a4a
- Craft PaperΔE00 1.639 · #8a6645
- Tanned WoodΔE00 1.92 · #8f6e4b
- Eagles NestΔE00 1.939 · #8a693f
- Steady BrownΔE00 1.99 · #8a6b4d
- Spanish LeatherΔE00 1.996 · #8e6a3f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.