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#b19778

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

#b19778

RGB

177, 151, 120

OKLCh

69.2% 0.053 71.7°

CIELAB (D50)

64.2, 6.6, 20.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 36% 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 53.5; on black, Lc -48.3. 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 12.0 and 12.1 and 20.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.78:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b7355 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

#b19778

protanopia

#9a9a78 · ΔE00 12.0

deuteranopia

#9f9f77 · ΔE00 12.1

tritanopia

#a4a400 · ΔE00 20.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArtisan Tan at ΔE00 0.818: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Artisan TanΔE00 0.818 · #b09879
  • Coffee KissΔE00 0.915 · #b19576
  • River OakΔE00 1.026 · #ae9474
  • Cliff RockΔE00 1.365 · #b19475
  • Wooded AcreΔE00 1.455 · #b59b7e
  • Soft FawnΔE00 1.539 · #b59778
  • Woodbridge TrailΔE00 1.688 · #b3987d
  • Buffalo BillΔE00 1.725 · #ae9274
  • SerengetiΔE00 1.771 · #ab9579
  • Country DwellerΔE00 1.811 · #b0967c
  • NomadicΔE00 1.812 · #af9479
  • Sauteed MushroomΔE00 1.875 · #ab9378

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