Lunatic Lynx
#ddaa88
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
#ddaa88
RGB
221, 170, 136
OKLCh
77.7% 0.076 55.0°
CIELAB (D50)
73.8, 16.0, 25.2
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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.2; on black, Lc -62.1. 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 18.7 and 19.1 and 27.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.06:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9b6c4c 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
#ddaa88
protanopia
#b1b188 · ΔE00 18.7
deuteranopia
#bbbb86 · ΔE00 19.1
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 27.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTumbleweed at ΔE00 0.266: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TumbleweedΔE00 0.266 · #deaa88
- New Mexico MesaΔE00 0.49 · #deaa89
- Nairobi DuskΔE00 1.042 · #d9a787
- Clay FireΔE00 1.276 · #d8a686
- Ancient IncaΔE00 1.494 · #e3af8e
- Boot Hill GhostΔE00 1.627 · #ddaf8e
- Bedtime StoryΔE00 1.647 · #e1b090
- Windswept CanyonΔE00 1.71 · #dba480
- Sweet SueΔE00 1.731 · #d8aa86
- YolandeΔE00 1.738 · #d5a585
- White AcornΔE00 1.782 · #d7a98c
- Almost ApricotΔE00 1.871 · #e0a787
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.