Pirate Gold
#ba782a
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ba782a
RGB
186, 120, 42
OKLCh
62.9% 0.122 66.0°
CIELAB (D50)
56.6, 21.9, 51.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 87% 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 63.5; on black, Lc -38.2. 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 20.8 and 21.3 and 23.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.62:1 — large text only
Black text
5.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a96812 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
#ba782a
protanopia
#82822b · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#8f8f22 · ΔE00 21.3
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 23.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilvus Milvus Orange at ΔE00 0.939: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Milvus Milvus OrangeΔE00 0.939 · #bb7722
- Fireside ChatΔE00 1.35 · #b87427
- LonganΔE00 1.562 · #bd7a33
- Hacienda Del SolΔE00 1.697 · #bb7731
- Autumn FestΔE00 1.723 · #be7d33
- Desert SunΔE00 1.94 · #bb7326
- Maine Coon OrangeΔE00 1.974 · #c2792b
- Sudan BrownΔE00 2.008 · #bc752d
- MandalayΔE00 2.028 · #b57b2e
- Fire LordΔE00 2.068 · #bb7733
- Toffee SauceΔE00 2.281 · #b17426
- Molten CaramelΔE00 2.381 · #bb7a39
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.