HueComb

Sombrero

#b39c8c

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

#b39c8c

RGB

179, 156, 140

OKLCh

70.9% 0.036 56.9°

CIELAB (D50)

66.1, 6.9, 11.7

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 21% 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 50.9; on black, Lc -51.0. 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 12.1 and 12.8 and 24.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887363 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

#b39c8c

protanopia

#9f9f8c · ΔE00 12.1

deuteranopia

#a3a38b · ΔE00 12.8

tritanopia

#a8a800 · ΔE00 24.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFree Wheeling at ΔE00 0.879: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Free WheelingΔE00 0.879 · #b29a8b
  • Postmodern MauveΔE00 0.89 · #b39c8e
  • Trusty TanΔE00 0.941 · #b59f8f
  • Light TaupeΔE00 1.283 · #b19d8d
  • Rich TaupeΔE00 1.292 · #b39c89
  • Bidwell BrownΔE00 1.304 · #b19c8f
  • Woodland StoneΔE00 1.506 · #b09b89
  • Rugged TanΔE00 1.784 · #b8a292
  • Easily SuedeΔE00 1.805 · #b29d8a
  • Gilded BeigeΔE00 1.928 · #b39f8d
  • Net WorkerΔE00 1.938 · #b6a194
  • White MouseΔE00 1.944 · #b9a193

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