Shipwreck

#968772

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

#968772

RGB

150, 135, 114

OKLCh

63.1% 0.035 76.2°

CIELAB (D50)

57.2, 3.3, 13.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

13 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 27% 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 62.5; on black, Lc -39.1. 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 8.2 and 8.5 and 19.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.50:1 — large text only

Black text

6.01:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.01:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837560 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

#968772

protanopia

#898972 · ΔE00 8.2

deuteranopia

#8c8c72 · ΔE00 8.5

tritanopia

#8f8f00 · ΔE00 19.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoscoe Village at ΔE00 1.099: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

Roscoe VillageΔE00 1.099 · #998871
Lunar Launch SiteΔE00 1.14 · #938673
Limbert LeatherΔE00 1.151 · #988870
BedboxΔE00 1.249 · #968775
Wild HawkΔE00 1.304 · #95856d
Curio BrownΔE00 1.467 · #988977
Bristol BeigeΔE00 1.531 · #93836f
Mississippi MudΔE00 1.551 · #99886f
Country ClubΔE00 1.596 · #948675
On the AvenueΔE00 1.604 · #948776
Weathered FossilΔE00 1.693 · #988a72
Hunt Club BrownΔE00 1.718 · #938370

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