HueComb

Saddle Up

#ab927a

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

#ab927a

RGB

171, 146, 122

OKLCh

67.6% 0.045 65.8°

CIELAB (D50)

62.4, 6.9, 16.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 30% 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 56.0; on black, Lc -45.8. 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 12.6 and 13.0 and 22.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.95:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.12:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.12:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a725b 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

#ab927a

protanopia

#95957a · ΔE00 12.6

deuteranopia

#9a9a79 · ΔE00 13.0

tritanopia

#9f9f00 · ΔE00 22.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDormer Brown at ΔE00 0.642: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Dormer BrownΔE00 0.642 · #ad947c
  • Bungalow BrownΔE00 0.732 · #ad947b
  • Pioneer VillageΔE00 0.94 · #aa9076
  • Bakery BrownΔE00 0.954 · #ab9078
  • Hutchins PlazaΔE00 1.016 · #ae957c
  • Worsted TanΔE00 1.031 · #ab9379
  • Craftsman BrownΔE00 1.141 · #ae9278
  • Nearly BrownΔE00 1.302 · #a88e76
  • NomadicΔE00 1.309 · #af9479
  • Roasted HazelnutΔE00 1.314 · #af967d
  • Sauteed MushroomΔE00 1.375 · #ab9378
  • Country DwellerΔE00 1.482 · #b0967c

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