HueComb

Exhumed Gold

#a78558

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

#a78558

RGB

167, 133, 88

OKLCh

63.8% 0.074 73.6°

CIELAB (D50)

58.0, 9.1, 29.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.7; on black, Lc -40.0. 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 12.8 and 12.9 and 18.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.42:1 — large text only

Black text

6.14:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.14:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#927144 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

#a78558

protanopia

#898958 · ΔE00 12.8

deuteranopia

#909057 · ΔE00 12.9

tritanopia

#979700 · ΔE00 18.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChicory at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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