Brown
#653700
An orange that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#653700
RGB
101, 55, 0
OKLCh
38.6% 0.089 61.8°
CIELAB (D50)
28.5, 18.3, 38.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.8; on black, Lc -9.6. 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 17.8 and 18.2 and 19.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.10:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#653700
protanopia
#3e3e01 · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#484800 · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#525200 · ΔE00 19.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNutmeg Wood Finish at ΔE00 1.235: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Nutmeg Wood FinishΔE00 1.235 · #683600
- Bestial BrownΔE00 1.452 · #6b3900
- Beasty BrownΔE00 2.064 · #663300
- Philippine BronzeΔE00 2.523 · #6e3a07
- Bloodtracker BrownΔE00 3.168 · #703f00
- SepiaΔE00 3.848 · #704214
- Chocolate FantasiesΔE00 4.058 · #5c3612
- Eyelash CamelΔE00 4.223 · #553300
- Pullman BrownΔE00 4.299 · #644117
- Hippogriff BrownΔE00 4.362 · #5c3c0d
- Ancient PlanksΔE00 4.913 · #774411
- Very CoffeeΔE00 5.059 · #664411
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.