Major Brown
#61574e
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
#61574e
RGB
97, 87, 78
OKLCh
46.4% 0.019 64.3°
CIELAB (D50)
37.8, 3.0, 6.8
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 19% 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 84.4; on black, Lc -17.6. 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 6.3 and 6.7 and 19.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.98:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#61574e
protanopia
#58584e · ΔE00 6.3
deuteranopia
#5a5a4e · ΔE00 6.7
tritanopia
#5c5c0b · ΔE00 19.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMetropolis at ΔE00 0.634: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MetropolisΔE00 0.634 · #61584f
- Beaver PeltΔE00 0.648 · #60564c
- IntrigueΔE00 0.913 · #635951
- Dark LUA ConsoleΔE00 1.115 · #5f574f
- Shadow WoodsΔE00 1.456 · #5e534a
- Monkey MadnessΔE00 1.502 · #63584c
- Cabin FeverΔE00 1.513 · #5e5349
- Ares ShadowΔE00 1.559 · #62584c
- UndergroundΔE00 1.639 · #665a51
- OspreyΔE00 1.66 · #63564b
- ProspectΔE00 2.039 · #62584b
- Mousy IndigoΔE00 2.044 · #5c544e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.