Chocolate Pretzel
#60504b
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#60504b
RGB
96, 80, 75
OKLCh
44.6% 0.023 38.1°
CIELAB (D50)
35.6, 6.2, 5.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 16% 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 86.6; on black, Lc -15.5. 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 9.7 and 10.5 and 23.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.75:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#60504b
protanopia
#52524b · ΔE00 9.7
deuteranopia
#55554b · ΔE00 10.5
tritanopia
#585800 · ΔE00 23.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScented Clove at ΔE00 1.002: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Scented CloveΔE00 1.002 · #61524c
- Cabin in the WoodsΔE00 1.197 · #5d4d47
- LynxΔE00 1.639 · #604d47
- Cafe ExpresoΔE00 1.683 · #5e4c48
- Oak CreekΔE00 1.7 · #5d504a
- Charred HickoryΔE00 1.712 · #5b4e4a
- Spanish RaisinΔE00 1.758 · #61504e
- Smooth CoffeeΔE00 1.785 · #5d4e4c
- Black SandΔE00 1.883 · #5b4e4b
- SaddleΔE00 1.987 · #5d4e46
- Chateau BrownΔE00 2.085 · #5b4b44
- Piano BrownΔE00 2.105 · #5c4c4a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.