Espresso Bar
#5b3f34
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
#5b3f34
RGB
91, 63, 52
OKLCh
39.6% 0.043 42.3°
CIELAB (D50)
29.7, 11.4, 11.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 92.0; on black, Lc -10.4. 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 16.2 and 17.4 and 22.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.21:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.52:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5b3f34
protanopia
#434334 · ΔE00 16.2
deuteranopia
#494933 · ΔE00 17.4
tritanopia
#4e4e00 · ΔE00 22.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPitch Mary Brown at ΔE00 1.003: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pitch Mary BrownΔE00 1.003 · #5c4033
- Potting SoilΔE00 1.008 · #5b3e31
- CordwoodΔE00 1.227 · #594035
- Daniel BooneΔE00 1.349 · #5e4235
- ThoroughfareΔE00 1.418 · #5b3d34
- Lava CakeΔE00 1.901 · #5a4239
- Shaved ChocolateΔE00 2.037 · #5a4039
- Hickory PlankΔE00 2.04 · #614539
- Roasted KonaΔE00 2.099 · #574037
- Lounge LeatherΔE00 2.212 · #563e31
- Painted BarkΔE00 2.214 · #5f3d32
- Cabin PlankΔE00 2.299 · #574038
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.