Woodhaven
#9e7b6c
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
#9e7b6c
RGB
158, 123, 108
OKLCh
61.3% 0.049 44.3°
CIELAB (D50)
54.8, 12.4, 13.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 65.6; on black, Lc -36.0. 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 17.5 and 18.5 and 26.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.82:1 — large text only
Black text
5.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#926f60 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
#9e7b6c
protanopia
#80806c · ΔE00 17.5
deuteranopia
#86866b · ΔE00 18.5
tritanopia
#8e8e00 · ΔE00 26.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeaver Fur at ΔE00 1.837: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Beaver FurΔE00 1.837 · #997867
- Tattered TeddyΔE00 1.96 · #a2806f
- TemptationΔE00 2.569 · #987465
- Chocolate DelightΔE00 2.588 · #96786d
- Soft CocoaΔE00 2.659 · #987b71
- Buffalo SoldierΔE00 2.677 · #95786c
- Beaver KitΔE00 2.771 · #9f8170
- Red EarthΔE00 2.78 · #a2816e
- Clay DuskΔE00 2.784 · #a48374
- Cocoa NutmegΔE00 2.871 · #a8816f
- Swing BrownΔE00 3.037 · #947569
- HempΔE00 3.108 · #987d73
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.