Grilled
#633f2e
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
#633f2e
RGB
99, 63, 46
OKLCh
40.5% 0.058 45.9°
CIELAB (D50)
30.7, 14.7, 17.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.1; on black, Lc -11.3. 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 19.0 and 19.5 and 22.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.28:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#633f2e
protanopia
#44442e · ΔE00 19.0
deuteranopia
#4c4c2c · ΔE00 19.5
tritanopia
#535300 · ΔE00 22.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Escape at ΔE00 1.117: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate EscapeΔE00 1.117 · #623d2e
- Tropical Wood BrownΔE00 1.281 · #603b2a
- Worn WoodenΔE00 1.722 · #634333
- TriassicΔE00 1.885 · #67422d
- CioccolatoΔE00 2.229 · #5d3b2e
- Roasted CoffeeΔE00 2.38 · #684134
- Thai TeakΔE00 2.465 · #624435
- AloeswoodΔE00 2.509 · #6a432d
- Rugged BrownΔE00 2.56 · #694336
- Noble ChocolateΔE00 2.615 · #6d4433
- CopraΔE00 2.626 · #654636
- In Caffeine We TrustΔE00 2.686 · #693c2a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.