Barista’s Favourite
#bb8d4e
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb8d4e
RGB
187, 141, 78
OKLCh
67.5% 0.098 73.5°
CIELAB (D50)
62.2, 12.8, 40.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.4; on black, Lc -45.4. 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 15.2 and 15.6 and 18.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9b6e2e 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
#bb8d4e
protanopia
#93934e · ΔE00 15.2
deuteranopia
#9c9c4b · ΔE00 15.6
tritanopia
#a6a600 · ΔE00 18.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHarvest Blessing at ΔE00 0.71: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Harvest BlessingΔE00 0.71 · #ba8e4e
- Bugle BoyΔE00 0.841 · #bb8f4f
- Summer WeaselΔE00 1.308 · #bb8e55
- Antiquarian GoldΔE00 1.438 · #ba8a45
- Sun Valley VistaΔE00 1.579 · #b88b46
- RadianceΔE00 1.637 · #bb9157
- Holiday WaffleΔE00 1.679 · #b78846
- Yellow AcornΔE00 1.719 · #b68d4c
- Funchal YellowΔE00 1.819 · #b6884d
- Bosc PearΔE00 1.851 · #c09056
- TussockΔE00 1.886 · #bf914b
- TwineΔE00 1.908 · #c19156
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.