Butternut
#ffa177
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ffa177
RGB
255, 161, 119
OKLCh
79.5% 0.126 44.6°
CIELAB (D50)
75.4, 32.8, 37.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.9; on black, Lc -64.5. 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 27.4 and 29.5 and 36.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.62:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.62:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b65f36 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
#ffa177
protanopia
#afaf78 · ΔE00 27.4
deuteranopia
#c3c373 · ΔE00 29.5
tritanopia
#d6d600 · ΔE00 36.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandyman at ΔE00 0.995: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CandymanΔE00 0.995 · #ff9e76
- Dwarven PeachesΔE00 1.188 · #ffa07a
- Apricot WashΔE00 1.422 · #fba57d
- PeachyΔE00 1.473 · #ffa67a
- Burning CoalsΔE00 1.621 · #f79d72
- Day at the ZooΔE00 1.791 · #ffa373
- Young TangerineΔE00 1.925 · #ffa474
- Pumpkin HueΔE00 2.025 · #f6a379
- Peach FizzΔE00 2.061 · #ffa883
- Autumn ArrivalΔE00 2.2 · #f9986f
- Usugaki PersimmonΔE00 2.257 · #fca474
- Sunset PeachΔE00 2.321 · #f8a77f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.