Cafe Royale
#6a4928
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
#6a4928
RGB
106, 73, 40
OKLCh
43.4% 0.066 64.6°
CIELAB (D50)
34.2, 11.7, 25.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.9; on black, Lc -14.3. 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 15.0 and 15.0 and 17.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.09:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.60:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.09:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6a4928
protanopia
#4e4e28 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#545426 · ΔE00 15.0
tritanopia
#5b5b00 · ΔE00 17.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHickory Chips at ΔE00 1.039: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hickory ChipsΔE00 1.039 · #69482a
- Pickled BeanΔE00 1.624 · #6e4826
- Florida’s AlligatorΔE00 1.675 · #664422
- DallasΔE00 1.917 · #664a2d
- Brown CountdownΔE00 2.002 · #654321
- Otter BrownΔE00 2.068 · #654320
- Wagon TrainΔE00 2.083 · #6d4d27
- Bunni BrownΔE00 2.124 · #6c4522
- Antique BrassΔE00 2.158 · #6c461f
- Satoimo BrownΔE00 2.336 · #644222
- Monks RobeΔE00 2.348 · #704822
- KobichaΔE00 2.363 · #6b4423
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.