Brunette
#664238
A red 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
#664238
RGB
102, 66, 56
OKLCh
41.8% 0.053 36.2°
CIELAB (D50)
32.0, 15.1, 12.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.8; on black, Lc -12.4. 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 19.2 and 20.6 and 25.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.40:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#664238
protanopia
#474738 · ΔE00 19.2
deuteranopia
#4f4f37 · ΔE00 20.6
tritanopia
#565600 · ΔE00 25.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Lab at ΔE00 1.012: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate LabΔE00 1.012 · #66433b
- Autumn FallΔE00 1.465 · #67423b
- Rugged BrownΔE00 1.487 · #694336
- Roasted CoffeeΔE00 1.575 · #684134
- Deep CherrywoodΔE00 1.69 · #6b473d
- Sekkasshoku BrownΔE00 1.736 · #683f36
- Rocky RoadΔE00 1.845 · #64453c
- American Milking DevonΔE00 1.981 · #63403a
- Painted BarkΔE00 2.041 · #5f3d32
- Deeply DeannaΔE00 2.449 · #6d4940
- Classic BrownΔE00 2.545 · #6a493d
- Western BrownΔE00 2.563 · #5d3b31
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.