Porcini
#d9ae86
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
#d9ae86
RGB
217, 174, 134
OKLCh
78.0% 0.073 64.3°
CIELAB (D50)
74.3, 12.2, 26.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.4; on black, Lc -62.9. 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 15.7 and 15.9 and 23.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.03:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#976f49 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
#d9ae86
protanopia
#b4b486 · ΔE00 15.7
deuteranopia
#bcbc84 · ΔE00 15.9
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 23.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSanta Fe Tan at ΔE00 0.992: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Santa Fe TanΔE00 0.992 · #d5ad85
- SheepskinΔE00 1.387 · #d9b28b
- Paper BrownΔE00 1.57 · #d7ac7f
- Caramel DrizzleΔE00 1.656 · #d9ad7f
- Maple TanΔE00 1.719 · #d4a882
- Cheddar BiscuitΔE00 1.766 · #d2ad87
- Band-AidΔE00 1.842 · #d7a97c
- Sweet SueΔE00 1.935 · #d8aa86
- Toast and ButterΔE00 2.041 · #d2ad84
- Caramel CloudΔE00 2.101 · #d4af85
- Desert RiverbedΔE00 2.113 · #d5a884
- City SunriseΔE00 2.228 · #d1a67d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.