HueComb

Gazelle

#947e68

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#947e68

RGB

148, 126, 104

OKLCh

60.8% 0.042 66.9°

CIELAB (D50)

54.4, 6.2, 15.3

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 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 66.0; on black, Lc -35.6. 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 11.7 and 12.1 and 20.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.86:1 — large text only

Black text

5.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#89735d 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

#947e68

protanopia

#818168 · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#858567 · ΔE00 12.1

tritanopia

#898900 · ΔE00 20.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLover’s Leap at ΔE00 0.446: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Lover’s LeapΔE00 0.446 · #957e68
  • Weathered ShingleΔE00 1.14 · #937f68
  • SofisticataΔE00 1.455 · #93806a
  • Chocolate MomentΔE00 1.527 · #998069
  • Baneblade BrownΔE00 1.596 · #937f6d
  • NestΔE00 1.642 · #917b68
  • Resort TanΔE00 1.698 · #907d66
  • Carved WoodΔE00 1.782 · #937a62
  • Dapper TanΔE00 1.802 · #947f65
  • Wet TaupeΔE00 1.959 · #907e6c
  • PortabelloΔE00 1.984 · #947a62
  • Spiced NutmegΔE00 2.024 · #927d6c

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