Kombucha
#d89f66
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d89f66
RGB
216, 159, 102
OKLCh
74.4% 0.100 65.2°
CIELAB (D50)
70.1, 17.1, 38.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.5; on black, Lc -56.6. 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 18.3 and 18.9 and 23.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16b32 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
#d89f66
protanopia
#a7a766 · ΔE00 18.3
deuteranopia
#b2b263 · ΔE00 18.9
tritanopia
#bebe00 · ΔE00 23.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isButternut Pie at ΔE00 0.665: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Butternut PieΔE00 0.665 · #d99e66
- Dechant Pear YellowΔE00 0.781 · #d79e62
- RitzyΔE00 1.146 · #d79c5f
- Golden AuraΔE00 1.346 · #d29e68
- Caramelo DulceΔE00 1.449 · #d69e6b
- Western SunriseΔE00 1.543 · #daa36f
- CronutΔE00 1.702 · #d69f60
- Desert CaravanΔE00 1.769 · #d3a169
- Bakelite GoldΔE00 1.805 · #d7995d
- Stunning GoldΔE00 1.86 · #da9a5d
- Butterscotch SyrupΔE00 1.86 · #d9a05f
- Prayer FlagΔE00 1.933 · #d59c6a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.