Rocky Racoon
#b27a47
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b27a47
RGB
178, 122, 71
OKLCh
62.6% 0.097 61.9°
CIELAB (D50)
56.3, 18.6, 36.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.8; on black, Lc -37.8. 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 19.1 and 19.8 and 23.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.64:1 — large text only
Black text
5.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16b37 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
#b27a47
protanopia
#828248 · ΔE00 19.1
deuteranopia
#8d8d44 · ΔE00 19.8
tritanopia
#999900 · ΔE00 23.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGold Metal at ΔE00 1: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Gold MetalΔE00 1 · #b17743
- Cowboy HatΔE00 1.701 · #b27d50
- Exotic LifeΔE00 1.733 · #ae7543
- Loquat BrownΔE00 1.78 · #ae7c4f
- MeerkatΔE00 1.975 · #ab7647
- Caramel SauceΔE00 2.104 · #b3804d
- Spruce YellowΔE00 2.123 · #b77d42
- Blonde WoodΔE00 2.139 · #ab7741
- Okonomiyaki BrownΔE00 2.189 · #ba7d4c
- Komodo DragonΔE00 2.23 · #b38052
- Vintage LincolnΔE00 2.363 · #b07b40
- Hidden MorelΔE00 2.552 · #aa7c4c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.