Gingerbread Crumble
#9c5e33
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9c5e33
RGB
156, 94, 51
OKLCh
54.3% 0.100 53.7°
CIELAB (D50)
46.5, 23.1, 35.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.3; on black, Lc -26.4. 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 21.7 and 22.7 and 26.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.06:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9c5e33
protanopia
#676734 · ΔE00 21.7
deuteranopia
#75752f · ΔE00 22.7
tritanopia
#818100 · ΔE00 26.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlazed Ginger at ΔE00 1.545: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Glazed GingerΔE00 1.545 · #a15c30
- Toffee CrunchΔE00 1.646 · #995e39
- IndochineΔE00 1.657 · #9c5b34
- Hampton BeachΔE00 1.805 · #9d603b
- Copper CreekΔE00 1.854 · #a35d31
- Ash BrownΔE00 2.126 · #98623c
- Wet AdobeΔE00 2.457 · #a3623b
- Scarecrow FrownΔE00 2.531 · #a55e2b
- Chestnut StallionΔE00 2.557 · #995d3b
- Chilli Con CarneΔE00 2.633 · #985e2b
- Desert SoilΔE00 2.643 · #a15f3b
- Ethiopian WolfΔE00 2.66 · #985629
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.