HueComb

Guinea Pig

#987652

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

#987652

RGB

152, 118, 82

OKLCh

59.0% 0.066 67.6°

CIELAB (D50)

52.4, 10.2, 25.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.6; on black, Lc -33.1. 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 14.2 and 14.3 and 19.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.16:1 — large text only

Black text

5.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#92704d 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

#987652

protanopia

#7a7a52 · ΔE00 14.2

deuteranopia

#818151 · ΔE00 14.3

tritanopia

#888800 · ΔE00 19.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSummerville Brown at ΔE00 0.375: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Summerville BrownΔE00 0.375 · #997651
  • Decreasing BrownΔE00 0.644 · #987654
  • Balsa WoodΔE00 0.935 · #9a7550
  • DirtΔE00 1.189 · #9b7653
  • Treasure CasketΔE00 1.217 · #9b7856
  • Renwick Golden OakΔE00 1.574 · #96724c
  • MochaΔE00 1.61 · #9d7651
  • Lonely RoadΔE00 1.68 · #947754
  • Dancing BearΔE00 1.706 · #94734c
  • Prince ParisΔE00 1.74 · #9d7957
  • Coco RumΔE00 1.795 · #9b7757
  • Cocoa CupcakeΔE00 1.803 · #967859

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