Cumin
#a58459
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
#a58459
RGB
165, 132, 89
OKLCh
63.4% 0.071 73.3°
CIELAB (D50)
57.6, 8.8, 28.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.2; on black, Lc -39.5. 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 12.7 and 12.8 and 18.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.47:1 — large text only
Black text
6.04:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.04:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#917147 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
#a58459
protanopia
#888859 · ΔE00 12.7
deuteranopia
#8f8f58 · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#959500 · ΔE00 18.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRich Oak at ΔE00 0.542: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rich OakΔE00 0.542 · #a7855a
- Exhumed GoldΔE00 0.667 · #a78558
- Rookwood Antique GoldΔE00 0.958 · #a58258
- ChicoryΔE00 1.045 · #a78658
- Lavish GoldΔE00 1.143 · #a38154
- Partridge KnollΔE00 1.154 · #a9875b
- AmberizedΔE00 1.392 · #aa8559
- Trinket GoldΔE00 1.447 · #a7885f
- Leather TanΔE00 1.502 · #a48454
- Forbidden PeanutΔE00 1.555 · #a38052
- Bread BasketΔE00 1.564 · #ab8659
- Temple TileΔE00 1.657 · #a9855d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.