Gingerbread
#8c4a2f
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8c4a2f
RGB
140, 74, 47
OKLCh
48.4% 0.098 42.4°
CIELAB (D50)
39.4, 26.8, 28.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.7; on black, Lc -19.2. 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 23.9 and 25.3 and 29.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.14:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8c4a2f
protanopia
#555530 · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#63632b · ΔE00 25.3
tritanopia
#717100 · ΔE00 29.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTwo Cents at ΔE00 1.836: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Two CentsΔE00 1.836 · #854a2e
- Sedona StoneΔE00 1.947 · #8e462f
- Madeira BrownΔE00 2.231 · #8f4826
- Hammered CopperΔE00 2.341 · #834831
- PaarlΔE00 2.427 · #864b36
- Dark Brazilian TopazΔE00 2.459 · #92462f
- Rusted EarthΔE00 2.502 · #8b5134
- Arabian SpiceΔE00 2.514 · #934c36
- Remaining EmbersΔE00 2.517 · #8a4c38
- BrickhouseΔE00 2.66 · #864a36
- Japanese CypressΔE00 2.768 · #965036
- Olive NiçoiseΔE00 2.823 · #88432e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.