Tahini Brown
#9b856b
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
#9b856b
RGB
155, 133, 107
OKLCh
63.0% 0.046 71.5°
CIELAB (D50)
57.1, 5.7, 17.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 62.8; on black, Lc -38.9. 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 11.2 and 11.4 and 19.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.52:1 — large text only
Black text
5.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#89735a 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
#9b856b
protanopia
#88886b · ΔE00 11.2
deuteranopia
#8c8c6a · ΔE00 11.4
tritanopia
#909000 · ΔE00 19.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack Headed Gull at ΔE00 0.689: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Black Headed GullΔE00 0.689 · #9c856c
- Petrified OakΔE00 1.049 · #9b846c
- CollectibleΔE00 1.066 · #9b8467
- KnotΔE00 1.34 · #988266
- Sturdy BrownΔE00 1.566 · #9b856f
- RuggedΔE00 1.665 · #998568
- Nurude BrownΔE00 2.031 · #9d896c
- River MudΔE00 2.057 · #a08b71
- NutΔE00 2.25 · #9e8a6d
- Roscoe VillageΔE00 2.254 · #998871
- ToscanaΔE00 2.27 · #9f846b
- Mississippi MudΔE00 2.28 · #99886f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.