Brisket
#6e4534
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
#6e4534
RGB
110, 69, 52
OKLCh
43.4% 0.063 43.2°
CIELAB (D50)
33.9, 16.7, 17.9
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 88.2; on black, Lc -14.0. 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 20.3 and 20.8 and 24.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.19:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.56:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.19:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e4534
protanopia
#4b4b34 · ΔE00 20.3
deuteranopia
#545432 · ΔE00 20.8
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 24.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNoble Chocolate at ΔE00 0.337: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Noble ChocolateΔE00 0.337 · #6d4433
- Santana SoulΔE00 0.95 · #714636
- HeartwoodΔE00 1.419 · #6f4232
- CappuccinoΔE00 1.747 · #704a3a
- Birdhouse BrownΔE00 1.96 · #6c483a
- Rugged BrownΔE00 1.991 · #694336
- Satin SoilΔE00 2.108 · #6b4836
- Uluru SunsetΔE00 2.173 · #704336
- Roasted CoffeeΔE00 2.223 · #684134
- Riding BootsΔE00 2.277 · #734a35
- EvolutionΔE00 2.394 · #704a3d
- AloeswoodΔE00 2.452 · #6a432d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.