Hamster Fur
#a6814c
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a6814c
RGB
166, 129, 76
OKLCh
62.7% 0.084 75.2°
CIELAB (D50)
56.7, 10.0, 34.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.3; on black, Lc -38.4. 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 13.2 and 13.4 and 17.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.58:1 — large text only
Black text
5.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#95703b 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
#a6814c
protanopia
#86864c · ΔE00 13.2
deuteranopia
#8d8d4a · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#959500 · ΔE00 17.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMuddy Waters at ΔE00 1.05: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Muddy WatersΔE00 1.05 · #a9844f
- Caramel SuedeΔE00 1.337 · #a78045
- Tosty CrustΔE00 1.434 · #a67e4b
- Forbidden PeanutΔE00 1.726 · #a38052
- Wood ThrushΔE00 1.728 · #a47d43
- Bronze MistΔE00 1.752 · #a37f44
- Leather TanΔE00 1.824 · #a48454
- DijonΔE00 1.87 · #a18251
- Kiss CandyΔE00 1.918 · #aa854a
- Lavish GoldΔE00 1.949 · #a38154
- Rare FindΔE00 2.171 · #ac8044
- Golden CadillacΔE00 2.186 · #ac864b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.