HueComb

Forbidden Peanut

#a38052

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

#a38052

RGB

163, 128, 82

OKLCh

62.3% 0.076 73.3°

CIELAB (D50)

56.2, 9.6, 30.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.9; on black, Lc -37.7. 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 13.1 and 13.2 and 18.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.64:1 — large text only

Black text

5.77:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.77:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#937143 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

#a38052

protanopia

#858552 · ΔE00 13.1

deuteranopia

#8b8b50 · ΔE00 13.2

tritanopia

#939300 · ΔE00 18.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavish Gold at ΔE00 0.449: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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