Oak Palace
#bb6b41
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb6b41
RGB
187, 107, 65
OKLCh
60.9% 0.117 47.3°
CIELAB (D50)
53.9, 30.0, 37.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.7; on black, Lc -35.0. 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 25.8 and 27.3 and 31.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.97:1 — large text only
Black text
5.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b16238 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
#bb6b41
protanopia
#787842 · ΔE00 25.8
deuteranopia
#89893c · ΔE00 27.3
tritanopia
#999900 · ΔE00 31.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpiced Nut at ΔE00 0.666: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Spiced NutΔE00 0.666 · #bc693e
- Ripe PeachΔE00 1.098 · #be6a3c
- Tufted LeatherΔE00 1.106 · #b96c46
- Dune SpiceΔE00 1.571 · #b66e45
- Screaming Bell MetalΔE00 1.705 · #c16f45
- TruepennyΔE00 1.743 · #b46c42
- MincemeatΔE00 1.788 · #b66a3c
- AdobeΔE00 1.858 · #bd6c48
- Orange BalladΔE00 1.911 · #b56d41
- Pottery ClayΔE00 2.016 · #b9714a
- ThanksgivingΔE00 2.103 · #b56e4a
- Orange LilyΔE00 2.163 · #be7249
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.