English Walnut
#3e2b23
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#3e2b23
RGB
62, 43, 35
OKLCh
30.9% 0.032 43.8°
CIELAB (D50)
19.7, 8.2, 8.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.7; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 12.5 and 13.5 and 19.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.34:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.57:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.34:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e2b23
protanopia
#2e2e23 · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#313122 · ΔE00 13.5
tritanopia
#353500 · ΔE00 19.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTree House at ΔE00 0.95: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tree HouseΔE00 0.95 · #3b2820
- Granite BrownΔE00 1.804 · #3d2d24
- Woodsy BrownΔE00 2.017 · #3d271d
- BistreΔE00 2.327 · #3d2b1f
- Morocco BrownΔE00 2.601 · #442d21
- After EightΔE00 2.671 · #3d2e24
- Brown PodΔE00 3.06 · #3c241b
- Chinese InkΔE00 3.128 · #3f312b
- Ethereal EspressoΔE00 3.175 · #3e2723
- Wetlands SwampΔE00 3.178 · #372418
- SubterraneanΔE00 3.395 · #452c1f
- SambucaΔE00 3.426 · #3b2e25
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.