Monument Valley
#ad5c34
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ad5c34
RGB
173, 92, 52
OKLCh
56.3% 0.119 45.6°
CIELAB (D50)
48.5, 31.4, 37.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.0; on black, Lc -28.7. 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 26.3 and 27.9 and 32.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.36:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ad5c34
protanopia
#696935 · ΔE00 26.3
deuteranopia
#7b7b2e · ΔE00 27.9
tritanopia
#8c8c00 · ΔE00 32.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFragrant Cloves at ΔE00 1.2: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fragrant ClovesΔE00 1.2 · #ac5e3a
- Fiery OrangeΔE00 1.268 · #b1592f
- Earthen JugΔE00 1.414 · #a85e39
- Stirland BattlemireΔE00 1.543 · #ae5a2c
- FudgesicleΔE00 1.987 · #ac6239
- AutumnalΔE00 2.308 · #ad5928
- Corn SnakeΔE00 2.37 · #ab6134
- Caramelised MapleΔE00 2.48 · #ad5a28
- Beef HotpotΔE00 2.519 · #a85d2e
- Pretty ParasolΔE00 2.556 · #ac5d3e
- Brick-A-BrackΔE00 2.672 · #a75c3d
- Tense TerracottaΔE00 2.707 · #a35732
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.