Hazelnut
#a8715a
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
#a8715a
RGB
168, 113, 90
OKLCh
60.0% 0.078 43.5°
CIELAB (D50)
53.1, 20.4, 22.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.7; on black, Lc -34.0. 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 22.0 and 22.4 and 29.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.06:1 — large text only
Black text
5.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a06a53 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
#a8715a
protanopia
#79795a · ΔE00 22.0
deuteranopia
#848458 · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#909000 · ΔE00 29.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarron Canela at ΔE00 1.22: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Marron CanelaΔE00 1.22 · #a7735a
- Orange FlambeΔE00 1.239 · #a96f55
- Arizona ClayΔE00 1.348 · #ad735a
- Chic BrickΔE00 1.4 · #a4725a
- Clay CourtΔE00 1.95 · #a9765d
- Earth ToneΔE00 2.1 · #a06e57
- Airbrushed CopperΔE00 2.232 · #aa6c51
- Decorous AmberΔE00 2.238 · #ac7559
- Glazed PotΔE00 2.246 · #ad7356
- Copper BeechΔE00 2.269 · #b1715a
- Tan WagonΔE00 2.499 · #a3755d
- Mojave SunsetΔE00 2.603 · #aa6a53
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.