HueComb

Caramelised Pecan

#a17b4d

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

#a17b4d

RGB

161, 123, 77

OKLCh

61.0% 0.078 70.8°

CIELAB (D50)

54.6, 11.1, 31.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.9; on black, Lc -35.8. 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 14.1 and 14.3 and 18.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.85:1 — large text only

Black text

5.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#957042 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

#a17b4d

protanopia

#80804d · ΔE00 14.1

deuteranopia

#88884b · ΔE00 14.3

tritanopia

#8f8f00 · ΔE00 18.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrackled Leather at ΔE00 0.469: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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