Pizza

#bf8d3c

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bf8d3c

RGB

191, 141, 60

OKLCh

67.7% 0.114 76.5°

CIELAB (D50)

62.5, 13.7, 49.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.0; on black, Lc -45.8. 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 15.7 and 16.0 and 17.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.96:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9e6d12 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bf8d3c

protanopia

#94943d · ΔE00 15.7

deuteranopia

#9e9e38 · ΔE00 16.0

tritanopia

#a8a800 · ΔE00 17.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrading Post at ΔE00 1.243: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Trading PostΔE00 1.243 · #bb8d3b
  • CentraΔE00 1.298 · #c08f45
  • Calico CatΔE00 1.349 · #c48e36
  • Yellow OchreΔE00 1.366 · #c39143
  • ArnicaΔE00 1.505 · #bf8f37
  • Victorian CrownΔE00 1.517 · #c38b36
  • TreasuresΔE00 1.517 · #ba8b36
  • Butter BaseΔE00 1.591 · #c28a35
  • Burnished CopperΔE00 1.649 · #bb8833
  • Fervent BrassΔE00 1.679 · #bc9042
  • TinselΔE00 1.681 · #b88a3e
  • Child of the MoonΔE00 1.815 · #c68d37

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.