HueComb

Brown Alpaca

#b86d29

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#b86d29

RGB

184, 109, 41

OKLCh

60.6% 0.124 58.6°

CIELAB (D50)

53.8, 26.8, 49.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 86% 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 66.9; on black, Lc -34.7. 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 23.8 and 24.5 and 26.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.99:1 — large text only

Black text

5.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#af641e 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

#b86d29

protanopia

#79792a · ΔE00 23.8

deuteranopia

#898921 · ΔE00 24.5

tritanopia

#989800 · ΔE00 26.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHardy Clay at ΔE00 1.291: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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