Florida’s Alligator
#664422
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
#664422
RGB
102, 68, 34
OKLCh
41.8% 0.068 64.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.3, 12.3, 26.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.7; on black, Lc -12.6. 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 15.2 and 15.3 and 17.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.41:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#664422
protanopia
#494922 · ΔE00 15.2
deuteranopia
#505020 · ΔE00 15.3
tritanopia
#575700 · ΔE00 17.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrown Countdown at ΔE00 0.334: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brown CountdownΔE00 0.334 · #654321
- Otter BrownΔE00 0.462 · #654320
- Satoimo BrownΔE00 0.903 · #644222
- Cafe RoyaleΔE00 1.675 · #6a4928
- Bunni BrownΔE00 1.747 · #6c4522
- Hickory ChipsΔE00 1.822 · #69482a
- KobichaΔE00 1.834 · #6b4423
- Antique BrassΔE00 1.889 · #6c461f
- FlatteryΔE00 2.002 · #6b4424
- Pickled BeanΔE00 2.132 · #6e4826
- Pullman BrownΔE00 2.367 · #644117
- Monks RobeΔE00 2.643 · #704822
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.