Ancient Chest
#99522b
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#99522b
RGB
153, 82, 43
OKLCh
51.6% 0.108 47.6°
CIELAB (D50)
43.2, 27.9, 35.9
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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.8; on black, Lc -23.0. 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 24.3 and 25.7 and 29.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.60:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#99522b
protanopia
#5d5e2c · ΔE00 24.3
deuteranopia
#6d6d25 · ΔE00 25.7
tritanopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 29.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHawaiian Coconut at ΔE00 0.277: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hawaiian CoconutΔE00 0.277 · #99522c
- RustyΔE00 0.736 · #96512a
- Leather BrownΔE00 0.875 · #97502b
- PanelaΔE00 1.037 · #9b5227
- Chelsea GemΔE00 1.193 · #95532f
- WarmthΔE00 1.561 · #9f552d
- Khaki BrownΔE00 1.598 · #954e2a
- Seared EarthΔE00 1.621 · #9a5633
- Hello FallΔE00 1.623 · #995533
- Texas Ranger BrownΔE00 1.883 · #a0522d
- PiperΔE00 1.904 · #9d5432
- Roasted PecanΔE00 2.028 · #93542b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.