Embarrassed Frog
#996611
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#996611
RGB
153, 102, 17
OKLCh
55.1% 0.112 73.0°
CIELAB (D50)
47.8, 16.4, 50.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.9; on black, Lc -27.8. 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 17.0 and 17.2 and 18.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.26:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#996611
protanopia
#6d6d13 · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#787805 · ΔE00 17.2
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 18.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCobre at ΔE00 0.813: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CobreΔE00 0.813 · #996515
- Gamboge BrownΔE00 1.389 · #996600
- MandolinΔE00 1.63 · #97691e
- Raw SiennaΔE00 1.668 · #9a6200
- Cinnamon BrownΔE00 1.723 · #9e6a19
- KomodoΔE00 1.909 · #a06814
- Cumin OchreΔE00 2.003 · #a06600
- OliviaΔE00 2.365 · #996622
- Balor BrownΔE00 2.442 · #9c6b08
- Syrah SoilΔE00 2.488 · #a16717
- Armageddon DunesΔE00 3.233 · #926a25
- Stage GoldΔE00 3.456 · #9e6928
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.