Black Power
#654b37
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
#654b37
RGB
101, 75, 55
OKLCh
43.5% 0.047 58.7°
CIELAB (D50)
34.3, 9.3, 16.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.8; on black, Lc -14.4. 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 14.6 and 15.1 and 18.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.03:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.61:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.03:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#654b37
protanopia
#4e4e37 · ΔE00 14.6
deuteranopia
#545436 · ΔE00 15.1
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 18.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRadigan Conagher Brown at ΔE00 1.357: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Radigan Conagher BrownΔE00 1.357 · #694d3a
- TobaccoΔE00 1.426 · #684f3c
- Beauty SpotΔE00 1.724 · #604938
- GuitarΔE00 2.021 · #6b4c37
- Tilled SoilΔE00 2.072 · #6b4d35
- BuckeyeΔE00 2.109 · #674834
- Woodland BrownΔE00 2.211 · #5f4737
- Coffee LiqueurΔE00 2.242 · #6a513b
- Deep UmberΔE00 2.371 · #694d3d
- Buckingham PalaceΔE00 2.527 · #6b5140
- BisonΔE00 2.569 · #6e4f3a
- Ship Steering WheelΔE00 2.683 · #62493b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.