HueComb

Hickory

#b7a28e

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

#b7a28e

RGB

183, 162, 142

OKLCh

72.5% 0.037 65.8°

CIELAB (D50)

68.1, 5.6, 13.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 23% 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 48.2; on black, Lc -53.8. 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 10.9 and 11.4 and 23.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.45:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#877360 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

#b7a28e

protanopia

#a5a58e · ΔE00 10.9

deuteranopia

#a9a98d · ΔE00 11.4

tritanopia

#adad00 · ΔE00 23.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGilded Beige at ΔE00 1.2: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Gilded BeigeΔE00 1.2 · #b39f8d
  • Light SpiceΔE00 1.319 · #b3a18e
  • Antique WindmillΔE00 1.43 · #b6a38d
  • Faint MapleΔE00 1.486 · #baa391
  • Brown TeepeeΔE00 1.494 · #bca792
  • MidtownΔE00 1.502 · #b5a18a
  • SesameΔE00 1.509 · #baa38b
  • Easily SuedeΔE00 1.536 · #b29d8a
  • TavernΔE00 1.618 · #b7a594
  • Mocha FoamΔE00 1.697 · #bba28e
  • Baked PotatoΔE00 1.724 · #b69e87
  • Macadamia BrownΔE00 1.727 · #bba791

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