HueComb

Cocoloco

#aa8f7a

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

#aa8f7a

RGB

170, 143, 122

OKLCh

66.9% 0.044 59.8°

CIELAB (D50)

61.5, 8.1, 15.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 only 28% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.1; on black, Lc -44.6. 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 13.7 and 14.3 and 23.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.04:1 — large text only

Black text

6.92:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.92:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c725d 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

#aa8f7a

protanopia

#92927a · ΔE00 13.7

deuteranopia

#989879 · ΔE00 14.3

tritanopia

#9d9d00 · ΔE00 23.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Taupe at ΔE00 0.749: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Warm TaupeΔE00 0.749 · #ab917d
  • Bakery BrownΔE00 1.229 · #ab9078
  • Cosy CocoaΔE00 1.258 · #aa8f7d
  • SandriftΔE00 1.413 · #af937d
  • Nearly BrownΔE00 1.484 · #a88e76
  • Rodeo TanΔE00 1.493 · #a78b74
  • Delta SandbarΔE00 1.682 · #a8917f
  • Rikyūshira BrownΔE00 1.711 · #b0927a
  • Cantankerous CoyoteΔE00 1.764 · #ac8d74
  • Saddle UpΔE00 1.863 · #ab927a
  • Café AméricaineΔE00 1.88 · #aa8e74
  • Chocolate PowderΔE00 1.89 · #a58c7b

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