Stroopwafel
#a86f48
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a86f48
RGB
168, 111, 72
OKLCh
59.3% 0.090 54.4°
CIELAB (D50)
52.4, 20.2, 31.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.6; on black, Lc -33.1. 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 20.4 and 21.1 and 26.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.17:1 — large text only
Black text
5.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a26a43 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
#a86f48
protanopia
#777749 · ΔE00 20.4
deuteranopia
#838345 · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 26.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSlick Mud at ΔE00 0.728: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Slick MudΔE00 0.728 · #a66e49
- Copper MountainΔE00 0.895 · #ab714a
- BranΔE00 1.008 · #a9704c
- Flickering FlameΔE00 1.096 · #aa6e49
- Vintage PotteryΔE00 1.23 · #a66c47
- Drum SoloΔE00 1.236 · #a66e4b
- Pale CordovanΔE00 1.433 · #ad6e44
- Smouldering CopperΔE00 1.618 · #aa6e4b
- CashewΔE00 1.689 · #a47149
- Burnt AlmondΔE00 2.009 · #b0724a
- Auric CopperΔE00 2.096 · #aa6a44
- Maple GlazeΔE00 2.264 · #a76944
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.