HueComb

Nattō

#c79843

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

Hex

#c79843

RGB

199, 152, 67

OKLCh

70.8% 0.116 79.7°

CIELAB (D50)

66.2, 11.7, 50.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.0; on black, Lc -50.9. 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 14.5 and 14.7 and 16.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.62:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9c6f09 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

#c79843

protanopia

#9e9e44 · ΔE00 14.5

deuteranopia

#a8a83f · ΔE00 14.7

tritanopia

#b1b100 · ΔE00 16.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Spice at ΔE00 0.566: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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