Dwarven Bronze
#bf652e
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bf652e
RGB
191, 101, 46
OKLCh
60.2% 0.134 49.1°
CIELAB (D50)
53.0, 34.0, 46.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.7; on black, Lc -33.9. 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 27.7 and 29.1 and 32.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.10:1 — large text only
Black text
5.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b85e26 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
#bf652e
protanopia
#74742f · ΔE00 27.7
deuteranopia
#888825 · ΔE00 29.1
tritanopia
#9a9a00 · ΔE00 32.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHell’s Bells at ΔE00 1.451: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hell’s BellsΔE00 1.451 · #ba622a
- Cinnamon RufousΔE00 1.531 · #c2612c
- Opening NightΔE00 1.601 · #bd6426
- Sesame CrunchΔE00 1.608 · #c26a35
- Ruddy BrownΔE00 1.785 · #bb6528
- Chivalrous FoxΔE00 1.798 · #c7662a
- Ripe PeachΔE00 2.327 · #be6a3c
- Desert SpiceΔE00 2.36 · #c66b30
- Storybook SundownΔE00 2.439 · #c05f1c
- Burnt CopperΔE00 2.44 · #c56a39
- MincemeatΔE00 2.821 · #b66a3c
- Golden Lion TamarinΔE00 2.838 · #ca602a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.