Wild Chocolate

#665134

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

#665134

RGB

102, 81, 52

OKLCh

44.9% 0.051 74.8°

CIELAB (D50)

36.1, 6.0, 20.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.1; on black, Lc -16.0. 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 11.0 and 11.0 and 14.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

7.52:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.79:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at7.52:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#665134

protanopia

#545434 · ΔE00 11.0

deuteranopia

#585833 · ΔE00 11.0

tritanopia

#5c5c00 · ΔE00 14.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAncient Olive at ΔE00 1.533: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Ancient OliveΔE00 1.533 · #6a5536
  • Desert PalmΔE00 1.544 · #675239
  • Oliva OscuroΔE00 1.631 · #665439
  • Graveyard EarthΔE00 1.635 · #68553a
  • Jungle BeatΔE00 1.743 · #654f2d
  • ChieftainΔE00 1.907 · #6a5637
  • Cowboy BootsΔE00 2.072 · #695239
  • Pimento Grain BrownΔE00 2.192 · #6c5738
  • CartwheelΔE00 2.318 · #665537
  • Caraway BrownΔE00 2.564 · #6d563c
  • Protégé BronzeΔE00 2.743 · #66543e
  • BulrushΔE00 2.754 · #6d5837

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.