Wine Barrel
#aa5522
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa5522
RGB
170, 85, 34
OKLCh
54.5% 0.128 48.1°
CIELAB (D50)
46.4, 33.1, 44.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 86% 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 75.3; on black, Lc -26.4. 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 27.1 and 28.5 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa5522
protanopia
#636324 · ΔE00 27.1
deuteranopia
#767618 · ΔE00 28.5
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpicy Cinnamon at ΔE00 0.544: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Spicy CinnamonΔE00 0.544 · #a85624
- SiennaΔE00 1.225 · #a9561e
- AutumnalΔE00 1.404 · #ad5928
- Caramelised MapleΔE00 1.61 · #ad5a28
- GarfieldΔE00 1.866 · #a75429
- Funky MonkeyΔE00 2.052 · #ad4e1a
- Stirland BattlemireΔE00 2.058 · #ae5a2c
- Beef HotpotΔE00 2.508 · #a85d2e
- Skrag BrownΔE00 2.553 · #b04e0f
- Brandy BearΔE00 2.604 · #aa5412
- Mahogany FinishΔE00 2.972 · #aa5511
- Bright BronzeΔE00 3.03 · #a05822
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.