HueComb

Pergament

#bfa58a

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bfa58a

RGB

191, 165, 138

OKLCh

73.8% 0.048 68.0°

CIELAB (D50)

69.5, 6.8, 17.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 24 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 only 30% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.2; on black, Lc -55.9. 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 12.4 and 12.7 and 22.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.34:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.96:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.96:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b7259 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

#bfa58a

protanopia

#a8a88a · ΔE00 12.4

deuteranopia

#adad89 · ΔE00 12.7

tritanopia

#b2b200 · ΔE00 22.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOakwood at ΔE00 0.743: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • OakwoodΔE00 0.743 · #bda58b
  • Candied GingerΔE00 0.855 · #bfa387
  • BasketryΔE00 0.927 · #bda286
  • Sands of TimeΔE00 1.186 · #bca38b
  • TruffleΔE00 1.188 · #c2a78e
  • Kangaroo PouchΔE00 1.249 · #bda289
  • Wetland ClayΔE00 1.277 · #c1a98f
  • Light Ash BrownΔE00 1.394 · #c2a487
  • FortressΔE00 1.404 · #bea58e
  • FarroΔE00 1.425 · #c1a485
  • SesameΔE00 1.46 · #baa38b
  • Brown OwlΔE00 1.517 · #c2aa90

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