HueComb

Pyramid

#9f7d4f

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

#9f7d4f

RGB

159, 125, 79

OKLCh

61.2% 0.075 74.0°

CIELAB (D50)

55.0, 9.2, 30.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.5; on black, Lc -36.2. 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 12.8 and 12.9 and 17.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.80:1 — large text only

Black text

5.52:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.52:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#927143 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#9f7d4f

protanopia

#81814f · ΔE00 12.8

deuteranopia

#88884d · ΔE00 12.9

tritanopia

#8f8f00 · ΔE00 17.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFantan at ΔE00 0.84: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.