Irish Coffee
#62422b
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#62422b
RGB
98, 66, 43
OKLCh
41.0% 0.057 56.1°
CIELAB (D50)
31.3, 12.2, 19.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.6; on black, Lc -11.8. 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 16.7 and 16.8 and 19.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.33:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#62422b
protanopia
#46462b · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#4d4d29 · ΔE00 16.8
tritanopia
#545400 · ΔE00 19.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVan Dyke Brown at ΔE00 1.544: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Van Dyke BrownΔE00 1.544 · #664228
- BrackenΔE00 1.921 · #5b3d27
- Boston Brown BreadΔE00 2.132 · #614432
- TriassicΔE00 2.15 · #67422d
- Peat BrownΔE00 2.277 · #5a3d29
- BuckeyeΔE00 2.332 · #674834
- Axe HandleΔE00 2.436 · #6b4730
- Brown HenΔE00 2.539 · #5e442c
- Carnaby TanΔE00 2.618 · #5b3a24
- PumpernickelΔE00 2.653 · #6c462d
- AloeswoodΔE00 2.676 · #6a432d
- Worn WoodenΔE00 2.999 · #634333
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.