Noble Chocolate
#6d4433
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
#6d4433
RGB
109, 68, 51
OKLCh
43.0% 0.063 43.2°
CIELAB (D50)
33.5, 16.7, 18.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.6; on black, Lc -13.6. 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 20.3 and 20.8 and 24.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6d4433
protanopia
#4a4a33 · ΔE00 20.3
deuteranopia
#535331 · ΔE00 20.8
tritanopia
#5b5b00 · ΔE00 24.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrisket at ΔE00 0.337: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BrisketΔE00 0.337 · #6e4534
- Santana SoulΔE00 1.177 · #714636
- HeartwoodΔE00 1.308 · #6f4232
- Rugged BrownΔE00 1.88 · #694336
- Roasted CoffeeΔE00 2.029 · #684134
- CappuccinoΔE00 2.04 · #704a3a
- Birdhouse BrownΔE00 2.103 · #6c483a
- Uluru SunsetΔE00 2.171 · #704336
- Satin SoilΔE00 2.21 · #6b4836
- AloeswoodΔE00 2.336 · #6a432d
- Riding BootsΔE00 2.523 · #734a35
- TriassicΔE00 2.537 · #67422d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.