Mars
#ad6242
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ad6242
RGB
173, 98, 66
OKLCh
57.5% 0.107 43.3°
CIELAB (D50)
50.0, 28.9, 31.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.4; on black, Lc -30.3. 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 25.2 and 26.7 and 32.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.56:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.60:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.60:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ad6242
protanopia
#6e6e43 · ΔE00 25.2
deuteranopia
#7e7e3e · ΔE00 26.7
tritanopia
#8d8d00 · ΔE00 32.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCopper-Metal Red at ΔE00 0.46: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Copper-Metal RedΔE00 0.46 · #ad6342
- Georgia ClayΔE00 1.332 · #b06144
- BorneoΔE00 1.438 · #a76244
- Pretty ParasolΔE00 1.6 · #ac5d3e
- Rusty GateΔE00 1.634 · #af6649
- Fragrant ClovesΔE00 1.706 · #ac5e3a
- AmazonianΔE00 1.797 · #aa6644
- Gladiator LeatherΔE00 2.113 · #a95c3e
- Brick-A-BrackΔE00 2.273 · #a75c3d
- Earthen JugΔE00 2.347 · #a85e39
- ReynardΔE00 2.401 · #b46848
- Red CentΔE00 2.412 · #ad654c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.