Light Brown
#b5651d
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b5651d
RGB
181, 101, 29
OKLCh
58.7% 0.130 56.8°
CIELAB (D50)
51.5, 29.4, 51.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.6; on black, Lc -32.1. 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 25.1 and 25.9 and 27.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.34:1 — large text only
Black text
4.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b26219 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
#b5651d
protanopia
#72721f · ΔE00 25.1
deuteranopia
#83830f · ΔE00 25.9
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 27.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDirty Brown at ΔE00 0.157: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dirty BrownΔE00 0.157 · #b5651e
- Honey GingerΔE00 1.625 · #ba6219
- Shutter CopperΔE00 1.762 · #bb6622
- Sugar Coated AlmondΔE00 1.833 · #bb6611
- Polished CopperΔE00 2.139 · #b66325
- Monkey KingΔE00 2.265 · #bf6414
- Pumpkin SpiceΔE00 2.392 · #b2691a
- Super Leaf BrownΔE00 2.44 · #ba5e0f
- Hardy ClayΔE00 2.443 · #b56c23
- Orangish BrownΔE00 2.529 · #b25f03
- Brown AlpacaΔE00 2.543 · #b86d29
- Hawaiian SunsetΔE00 2.581 · #c06714
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.