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#b1714c
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b1714c
RGB
177, 113, 76
OKLCh
60.9% 0.096 50.2°
CIELAB (D50)
54.1, 23.2, 31.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.5; on black, Lc -35.1. 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 22.2 and 23.2 and 28.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.94:1 — large text only
Black text
5.34:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.34:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a66743 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
#b1714c
protanopia
#7a7a4d · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#888849 · ΔE00 23.2
tritanopia
#959500 · ΔE00 28.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurnt Almond at ΔE00 1.14: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Burnt AlmondΔE00 1.14 · #b0724a
- Autumn UmberΔE00 1.29 · #ae704f
- Outlawed OrangeΔE00 1.509 · #b67350
- ThanksgivingΔE00 1.674 · #b56e4a
- Baked BeanΔE00 1.691 · #b2754d
- Dune SpiceΔE00 1.787 · #b66e45
- Smouldering CopperΔE00 1.791 · #aa6e4b
- Flickering FlameΔE00 1.822 · #aa6e49
- Copper MountainΔE00 1.859 · #ab714a
- Pottery ClayΔE00 1.875 · #b9714a
- BranΔE00 1.949 · #a9704c
- Pale CordovanΔE00 2.035 · #ad6e44
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.