Chocolate Fantasies
#5c3612
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
#5c3612
RGB
92, 54, 18
OKLCh
37.2% 0.073 60.4°
CIELAB (D50)
26.9, 15.1, 29.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.2; on black, Lc -8.3. 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 16.5 and 16.8 and 18.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.55:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.99:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.55:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5c3612
protanopia
#3c3c13 · ΔE00 16.5
deuteranopia
#44440e · ΔE00 16.8
tritanopia
#4c4c00 · ΔE00 18.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMoelleux au Chocolat 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.
- Moelleux au ChocolatΔE00 1.774 · #553311
- Baker’s ChocolateΔE00 2.9 · #5c3317
- Cassiterite BrownΔE00 2.921 · #623c1f
- BockΔE00 3.492 · #5d341a
- Dark CatacombsΔE00 3.507 · #513116
- Eyelash CamelΔE00 3.932 · #553300
- Satoimo BrownΔE00 3.96 · #644222
- Pullman BrownΔE00 3.992 · #644117
- MeatloafΔE00 3.998 · #663311
- BrownΔE00 4.058 · #653700
- Bavarian Sweet MustardΔE00 4.101 · #4d3113
- Beasty BrownΔE00 4.125 · #663300
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.