Ochicha Latte

#6b6047

A yellow 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

#6b6047

RGB

107, 96, 71

OKLCh

49.3% 0.040 87.0°

CIELAB (D50)

41.3, 1.5, 16.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.9; on black, Lc -21.0. 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 6.2 and 6.3 and 14.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

6.20:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.39:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#6b6047

protanopia

#616147 · ΔE00 6.2

deuteranopia

#636347 · ΔE00 6.3

tritanopia

#666600 · ΔE00 14.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOvergrown Trees at ΔE00 0.374: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Overgrown TreesΔE00 0.374 · #6b6048
  • Soya BeanΔE00 1.421 · #6f634b
  • Cold PressedΔE00 1.821 · #665b42
  • Stone PineΔE00 1.834 · #665c46
  • Squirrel’s NestΔE00 1.966 · #665e48
  • Prairie FoliageΔE00 2.041 · #6e5f45
  • Classic BronzeΔE00 2.134 · #6d624e
  • Midnight ForestΔE00 2.178 · #685d49
  • Gator TailΔE00 2.184 · #665e43
  • Covered WagonΔE00 2.262 · #726449
  • Kelp BrownΔE00 2.267 · #716246
  • Deer TrailΔE00 2.336 · #6a634c

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