Whisky Barrel
#96745b
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
#96745b
RGB
150, 116, 91
OKLCh
58.6% 0.056 57.7°
CIELAB (D50)
51.8, 11.2, 19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.3; on black, Lc -32.4. 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 16.3 and 16.5 and 22.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.25:1 — large text only
Black text
4.95:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.95:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#927057 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#96745b
protanopia
#78785b · ΔE00 16.3
deuteranopia
#7f7f5a · ΔE00 16.5
tritanopia
#868600 · ΔE00 22.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isToasty at ΔE00 0.814: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ToastyΔE00 0.814 · #957258
- Dark ToastΔE00 0.893 · #97765c
- Baked SiennaΔE00 1.503 · #9b775e
- Arrow CreekΔE00 1.581 · #927257
- Liver ChestnutΔE00 1.705 · #987456
- Toffee BarΔE00 1.713 · #947255
- Cavern SandΔE00 1.792 · #947054
- Spanish StyleΔE00 2.029 · #93765c
- Mocha SyrupΔE00 2.19 · #926f53
- Corral BrownΔE00 2.301 · #937360
- Fudge BarΔE00 2.342 · #997964
- Pepper SpiceΔE00 2.348 · #8e7059
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.