Moelleux au Chocolat
#553311
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
#553311
RGB
85, 51, 17
OKLCh
35.6% 0.068 62.2°
CIELAB (D50)
25.0, 13.4, 27.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.7; 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 15.6 and 15.7 and 16.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.24:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.87:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.24:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#553311
protanopia
#383812 · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#3f3f0e · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#464600 · ΔE00 16.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Fantasies at ΔE00 1.774: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate FantasiesΔE00 1.774 · #5c3612
- Dark CatacombsΔE00 2.223 · #513116
- Bavarian Sweet MustardΔE00 2.395 · #4d3113
- Baker’s ChocolateΔE00 3.351 · #5c3317
- Kyoto HouseΔE00 3.391 · #503000
- Eyelash CamelΔE00 3.658 · #553300
- Brown StudyΔE00 3.679 · #4a290d
- Stirland MudΔE00 3.691 · #492b00
- BockΔE00 3.944 · #5d341a
- Cassiterite BrownΔE00 3.972 · #623c1f
- Kuro BrownΔE00 4.275 · #583822
- Brown BrambleΔE00 4.317 · #53331e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.