Teak
#ab8953
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ab8953
RGB
171, 137, 83
OKLCh
65.0% 0.083 78.1°
CIELAB (D50)
59.5, 8.3, 33.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.9; on black, Lc -41.8. 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 12.0 and 12.2 and 16.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.26:1 — large text only
Black text
6.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#92713b 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
#ab8953
protanopia
#8d8d53 · ΔE00 12.0
deuteranopia
#949451 · ΔE00 12.2
tritanopia
#9b9b00 · ΔE00 16.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLimed Oak at ΔE00 0.606: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Limed OakΔE00 0.606 · #ac8a56
- Golden Quartz OchreΔE00 1.012 · #aa8a58
- Bronze TreasureΔE00 1.442 · #b08d57
- Golden CadillacΔE00 1.591 · #ac864b
- Bamboo YellowΔE00 1.669 · #ae884b
- Kiss CandyΔE00 1.709 · #aa854a
- Fall HarvestΔE00 1.713 · #a78a59
- Muddy WatersΔE00 1.801 · #a9844f
- Hawk FeatherΔE00 1.851 · #ae8c5c
- Camel SpiderΔE00 1.886 · #af8751
- Rustic WickerΔE00 1.945 · #b18a56
- Havana CigarΔE00 1.952 · #af884a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.