Bison
#6e4f3a
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
#6e4f3a
RGB
110, 79, 58
OKLCh
45.5% 0.053 55.1°
CIELAB (D50)
36.6, 11.3, 17.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.6; on black, Lc -16.4. 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 16.4 and 16.8 and 20.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.84:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e4f3a
protanopia
#53533a · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#595939 · ΔE00 16.8
tritanopia
#606000 · ΔE00 20.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoffee at ΔE00 0.933: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CoffeeΔE00 0.933 · #6f4e37
- GuitarΔE00 1.042 · #6b4c37
- Radigan Conagher BrownΔE00 1.485 · #694d3a
- Old CopperΔE00 1.589 · #73503b
- Tuscan BrownΔE00 1.61 · #6f4c37
- Tilled SoilΔE00 1.618 · #6b4d35
- Seed BrownΔE00 1.74 · #734f39
- Moose FurΔE00 1.768 · #725440
- Traditional LeatherΔE00 1.864 · #6f4f3e
- Rookwood Medium BrownΔE00 1.966 · #6e5241
- MudΔE00 2.033 · #70543e
- SpiceΔE00 2.06 · #6c4f3f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.