Old Whiskey
#ddaa55
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ddaa55
RGB
221, 170, 85
OKLCh
76.9% 0.119 78.2°
CIELAB (D50)
73.2, 12.7, 50.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.2; on black, Lc -61.1. 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 15.3 and 15.6 and 18.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.11:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9e6e02 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
#ddaa55
protanopia
#b1b156 · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#bbbb52 · ΔE00 15.6
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 18.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRip Cord at ΔE00 0.425: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rip CordΔE00 0.425 · #dfab56
- Brown MustardΔE00 0.649 · #dfac59
- Golden ApricotΔE00 0.881 · #dba950
- Lemon PoppyΔE00 1.081 · #e1ae58
- Rob RoyΔE00 1.181 · #ddad56
- Autumn AvenueΔE00 1.325 · #e3ad59
- Cheese WizΔE00 1.464 · #dfad51
- Mellowed GoldΔE00 1.467 · #e2a94f
- SunrayΔE00 1.523 · #e3ab57
- Plantain ChipsΔE00 1.588 · #d6a550
- Brass MeshΔE00 1.608 · #e1a84b
- CameleerΔE00 1.739 · #e2af60
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.