Wild Horses
#8d6747
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
#8d6747
RGB
141, 103, 71
OKLCh
54.5% 0.067 60.8°
CIELAB (D50)
47.0, 12.8, 24.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.8; on black, Lc -27.0. 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 16.4 and 16.4 and 21.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.16:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8d6747
protanopia
#6c6c47 · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#747445 · ΔE00 16.4
tritanopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 21.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCraft Paper at ΔE00 1.026: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Craft PaperΔE00 1.026 · #8a6645
- English SaddleΔE00 1.05 · #8e6947
- Webcap BrownΔE00 1.305 · #8f684b
- Slippery StoneΔE00 1.321 · #8d6a4a
- Baked CookieΔE00 1.413 · #89674a
- Caramel LatteΔE00 1.538 · #8c6342
- Neutral ValleyΔE00 1.625 · #8b694d
- Texas BootsΔE00 1.719 · #8b6947
- Cowboy TrailsΔE00 1.772 · #8d6b4b
- Barcelona BrownΔE00 1.785 · #926a46
- Sedona BrownΔE00 1.996 · #886244
- Caramel SwirlΔE00 2.043 · #8f6a4f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.