Deer
#ba8759
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ba8759
RGB
186, 135, 89
OKLCh
66.3% 0.088 62.4°
CIELAB (D50)
60.7, 16.2, 32.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.3; on black, Lc -43.4. 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 17.8 and 18.3 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.14:1 — large text only
Black text
6.70:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.70:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9d6c3f 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
#ba8759
protanopia
#8e8e59 · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#989857 · ΔE00 18.3
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCanvas at ΔE00 1.355: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CanvasΔE00 1.355 · #bb8855
- Espresso TonicΔE00 1.699 · #c18b5b
- Tudor TanΔE00 1.743 · #b68960
- Safari SunΔE00 1.781 · #b4875e
- Cinnamon SandΔE00 1.912 · #b78153
- Mulling SpiceΔE00 1.953 · #c18654
- Sacred GroundΔE00 2.108 · #b2865d
- Caramel CupcakeΔE00 2.121 · #b98c5d
- Choco BiscuitΔE00 2.127 · #b4835b
- Rookwood AmberΔE00 2.166 · #c08650
- DoeΔE00 2.168 · #b68761
- Tatami TanΔE00 2.178 · #ba8c64
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.