Garfield
#a75429
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a75429
RGB
167, 84, 41
OKLCh
54.0% 0.123 45.9°
CIELAB (D50)
45.8, 32.6, 40.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.0; on black, Lc -25.7. 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 26.8 and 28.4 and 31.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.94:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a75429
protanopia
#62622a · ΔE00 26.8
deuteranopia
#747421 · ΔE00 28.4
tritanopia
#858500 · ΔE00 31.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpicy Cinnamon at ΔE00 1.801: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spicy CinnamonΔE00 1.801 · #a85624
- Tense TerracottaΔE00 1.819 · #a35732
- Wine BarrelΔE00 1.866 · #aa5522
- WarmthΔE00 1.885 · #9f552d
- HamburgerΔE00 1.959 · #a34e25
- Texas Ranger BrownΔE00 2.075 · #a0522d
- Cinnamon StickΔE00 2.257 · #b05127
- AutumnalΔE00 2.356 · #ad5928
- Stirland BattlemireΔE00 2.406 · #ae5a2c
- VesuviusΔE00 2.473 · #a85533
- Funky MonkeyΔE00 2.494 · #ad4e1a
- Rose of SharonΔE00 2.528 · #ac512d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.