Earthbound

#a48a80

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

#a48a80

RGB

164, 138, 128

OKLCh

65.4% 0.035 42.2°

CIELAB (D50)

59.7, 9.0, 9.2

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 only 18% 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 59.4; on black, Lc -42.3. 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 13.6 and 14.8 and 27.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.22:1 — large text only

Black text

6.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a7168 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

#a48a80

protanopia

#8d8d80 · ΔE00 13.6

deuteranopia

#92927f · ΔE00 14.8

tritanopia

#989800 · ΔE00 27.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaby Sprout at ΔE00 0.888: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Baby SproutΔE00 0.888 · #a78b81
Velvety ChestnutΔE00 1.019 · #a2877d
Magic MaltΔE00 1.195 · #a5887e
FudgecicleΔE00 1.337 · #a88b7f
Pink Shade GraniteΔE00 1.362 · #a4877d
Light CaramelΔE00 1.368 · #a38a83
Ecru OchreΔE00 1.408 · #a48d83
AspirationΔE00 1.603 · #a08a80
PortobelloΔE00 1.619 · #a28c82
Forest TrailΔE00 1.701 · #a88b83
Irish TeaΔE00 1.988 · #a38d86
Cocoa BerryΔE00 2.01 · #a08882

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