Brandy Bear
#aa5412
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa5412
RGB
170, 84, 18
OKLCh
54.2% 0.133 51.2°
CIELAB (D50)
46.1, 33.3, 50.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.6; on black, Lc -26.1. 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 26.9 and 28.0 and 30.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.27:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.99:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.27:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa5412
protanopia
#636315 · ΔE00 26.9
deuteranopia
#767600 · ΔE00 28.0
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 30.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMahogany Finish at ΔE00 0.484: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mahogany FinishΔE00 0.484 · #aa5511
- Cinnamon BunΔE00 1.452 · #ac4f06
- SiennaΔE00 1.545 · #a9561e
- TijoloΔE00 2.215 · #aa5500
- Windsor BrownΔE00 2.387 · #a75502
- Skrag BrownΔE00 2.527 · #b04e0f
- Mid Century FurnitureΔE00 2.533 · #ae5c1b
- Wine BarrelΔE00 2.604 · #aa5522
- Spicy CinnamonΔE00 2.701 · #a85624
- Bright BronzeΔE00 2.84 · #a05822
- Caramelised MapleΔE00 3.289 · #ad5a28
- Elm Brown RedΔE00 3.373 · #b25b09
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.