Hemp
#987d73
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
#987d73
RGB
152, 125, 115
OKLCh
61.2% 0.037 41.3°
CIELAB (D50)
54.8, 9.6, 9.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 20% 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 65.6; on black, Lc -36.1. 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 14.3 and 15.5 and 26.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.81:1 — large text only
Black text
5.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c7167 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
#987d73
protanopia
#808073 · ΔE00 14.3
deuteranopia
#868672 · ΔE00 15.5
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 26.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Cocoa at ΔE00 0.934: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Soft CocoaΔE00 0.934 · #987b71
- CougarΔE00 1.618 · #9a7f78
- Chocolate DelightΔE00 1.963 · #96786d
- Tallarn LeatherΔE00 1.974 · #947e74
- Tempered AllspiceΔE00 2.003 · #987e70
- Buffalo SoldierΔE00 2.027 · #95786c
- Cafe OleΔE00 2.049 · #9a7f79
- Soft Rabbit BrownΔE00 2.251 · #927c75
- CinereousΔE00 2.486 · #98817b
- Peppered PecanΔE00 2.503 · #957d6f
- Modern MochaΔE00 2.543 · #9d8376
- Mulberry SilkΔE00 2.621 · #94766c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.