Argan Oil
#9d6646
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9d6646
RGB
157, 102, 70
OKLCh
56.2% 0.085 50.5°
CIELAB (D50)
48.8, 20.2, 27.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.8; on black, Lc -28.9. 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 20.7 and 21.4 and 26.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.42:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9d6646
protanopia
#6e6e46 · ΔE00 20.7
deuteranopia
#797943 · ΔE00 21.4
tritanopia
#858500 · ΔE00 26.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFoxfire Brown at ΔE00 1.08: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Foxfire BrownΔE00 1.08 · #9f6949
- Antique CopperΔE00 1.109 · #9e6649
- Oiled up KardashianΔE00 1.464 · #996644
- Mocha BisqueΔE00 1.549 · #9a6340
- Natural CorkΔE00 1.683 · #976343
- Brown EyesΔE00 1.88 · #9e6b4a
- Mud BallΔE00 2.011 · #966544
- HazelΔE00 2.07 · #a36b4b
- Chestnut BeachΔE00 2.101 · #9a6844
- EarthΔE00 2.206 · #a2653e
- Bottled ShipΔE00 2.411 · #9b6944
- Harrison RustΔE00 2.424 · #9a5f3f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.