Bourbon
#af6c3e
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#af6c3e
RGB
175, 108, 62
OKLCh
59.5% 0.105 53.7°
CIELAB (D50)
52.5, 24.3, 37.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.5; on black, Lc -33.2. 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 22.6 and 23.6 and 27.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.17:1 — large text only
Black text
5.04:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.04:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a96738 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
#af6c3e
protanopia
#76763f · ΔE00 22.6
deuteranopia
#84843a · ΔE00 23.6
tritanopia
#929200 · ΔE00 27.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGingery at ΔE00 0.256: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GingeryΔE00 0.256 · #b06c3e
- Ginger DoughΔE00 1.084 · #b06d3b
- Pale CordovanΔE00 1.206 · #ad6e44
- African SafariΔE00 1.224 · #b16b40
- Ebony LipsΔE00 1.503 · #b06a40
- Orange BalladΔE00 1.709 · #b56d41
- Tanooki Suit BrownΔE00 1.882 · #ae6c37
- TruepennyΔE00 1.917 · #b46c42
- MincemeatΔE00 1.992 · #b66a3c
- Auric CopperΔE00 2.331 · #aa6a44
- Burnt AlmondΔE00 2.409 · #b0724a
- Dune SpiceΔE00 2.472 · #b66e45
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.