HueComb

Weathered Wood

#b19c86

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

#b19c86

RGB

177, 156, 134

OKLCh

70.5% 0.040 68.4°

CIELAB (D50)

65.8, 5.4, 14.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 26% 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 51.3; on black, Lc -50.5. 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 10.8 and 11.3 and 22.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.97:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.97:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#87735e 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

#b19c86

protanopia

#9f9f86 · ΔE00 10.8

deuteranopia

#a3a385 · ΔE00 11.3

tritanopia

#a7a700 · ΔE00 22.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMajestic Elk at ΔE00 1.165: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Majestic ElkΔE00 1.165 · #ad9a84
  • Over the TaupeΔE00 1.217 · #b09d8a
  • Easily SuedeΔE00 1.285 · #b29d8a
  • Plush TanΔE00 1.343 · #b49c83
  • ShattellΔE00 1.409 · #b5a088
  • Baked PotatoΔE00 1.41 · #b69e87
  • QuicksandΔE00 1.47 · #ac9884
  • MidtownΔE00 1.59 · #b5a18a
  • Song ThrushΔE00 1.631 · #af987f
  • Woodland StoneΔE00 1.672 · #b09b89
  • Rich TaupeΔE00 1.776 · #b39c89
  • Gilded BeigeΔE00 1.791 · #b39f8d

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