Eagle
#a26c36
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a26c36
RGB
162, 108, 54
OKLCh
57.8% 0.098 63.6°
CIELAB (D50)
50.7, 18.3, 38.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.6; on black, Lc -31.1. 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 18.7 and 19.3 and 22.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.44:1 — large text only
Black text
4.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16b35 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
#a26c36
protanopia
#747437 · ΔE00 18.7
deuteranopia
#7f7f32 · ΔE00 19.3
tritanopia
#8a8a00 · ΔE00 22.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCastellina at ΔE00 1.882: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CastellinaΔE00 1.882 · #a27040
- SplinterΔE00 1.919 · #a3713f
- Horsing AroundΔE00 2.237 · #9a6c39
- Gallstone YellowΔE00 2.436 · #a36629
- Hot GingerΔE00 2.63 · #a36736
- Caramel KissesΔE00 2.649 · #9d652b
- Golden OakΔE00 2.665 · #a96a28
- Desert ClayΔE00 2.704 · #9e6e43
- WoodgrainΔE00 2.76 · #996633
- Stage GoldΔE00 2.801 · #9e6928
- Hearth GoldΔE00 2.836 · #a17135
- Theatre GoldΔE00 2.947 · #a76924
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.