Buckeye
#674834
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
#674834
RGB
103, 72, 52
OKLCh
43.1% 0.053 53.7°
CIELAB (D50)
33.7, 11.7, 17.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.3; on black, Lc -13.8. 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 16.7 and 17.1 and 20.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.55:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#674834
protanopia
#4c4c34 · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#535333 · ΔE00 17.1
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 20.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGuitar at ΔE00 1.413: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GuitarΔE00 1.413 · #6b4c37
- Boston Brown BreadΔE00 1.742 · #614432
- Axe HandleΔE00 1.833 · #6b4730
- CopraΔE00 1.836 · #654636
- Radigan Conagher BrownΔE00 1.883 · #694d3a
- Satin SoilΔE00 1.898 · #6b4836
- Black PowerΔE00 2.109 · #654b37
- Tuscan BrownΔE00 2.156 · #6f4c37
- Irish CoffeeΔE00 2.332 · #62422b
- Tilled SoilΔE00 2.37 · #6b4d35
- Deep UmberΔE00 2.391 · #694d3d
- Worn WoodenΔE00 2.412 · #634333
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.