Pecan
#a67253
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a67253
RGB
166, 114, 83
OKLCh
59.9% 0.080 51.5°
CIELAB (D50)
53.0, 18.5, 25.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.8; on black, Lc -33.8. 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 20.0 and 20.4 and 26.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.08:1 — large text only
Black text
5.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9e6b4c 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
#a67253
protanopia
#797953 · ΔE00 20.0
deuteranopia
#848451 · ΔE00 20.4
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 26.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDodge Pole at ΔE00 1.006: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dodge PoleΔE00 1.006 · #a37355
- Red Rock FallsΔE00 1.145 · #a27253
- AyrshireΔE00 1.657 · #a07254
- BranΔE00 1.722 · #a9704c
- Drum SoloΔE00 1.791 · #a66e4b
- Toasted ChestnutΔE00 1.942 · #a7775b
- New England RoastΔE00 2.015 · #aa7755
- Decorous AmberΔE00 2.075 · #ac7559
- Glazed PotΔE00 2.091 · #ad7356
- Smouldering CopperΔE00 2.114 · #aa6e4b
- Marron CanelaΔE00 2.147 · #a7735a
- Slick MudΔE00 2.208 · #a66e49
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.