Van Dyke Brown
#664228
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
#664228
RGB
102, 66, 40
OKLCh
41.4% 0.064 55.8°
CIELAB (D50)
31.8, 13.9, 22.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.1; on black, Lc -12.2. 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 17.4 and 17.4 and 20.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.37:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#664228
protanopia
#474728 · ΔE00 17.4
deuteranopia
#4f4f26 · ΔE00 17.4
tritanopia
#565600 · ΔE00 20.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIrish Coffee 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.
- Irish CoffeeΔE00 1.544 · #62422b
- Semi Sweet ChocolateΔE00 1.601 · #6b4226
- PumpernickelΔE00 1.743 · #6c462d
- Davao DurianΔE00 1.891 · #6c4226
- TriassicΔE00 2.049 · #67422d
- Axe HandleΔE00 2.086 · #6b4730
- AloeswoodΔE00 2.125 · #6a432d
- FlatteryΔE00 2.16 · #6b4424
- Cassiterite BrownΔE00 2.167 · #623c1f
- Satoimo BrownΔE00 2.385 · #644222
- KobichaΔE00 2.423 · #6b4423
- Hickory ChipsΔE00 2.639 · #69482a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.