Afternoon Coffee
#6e544b
A red 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
#6e544b
RGB
110, 84, 75
OKLCh
47.0% 0.038 39.9°
CIELAB (D50)
38.3, 10.1, 9.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 26% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.9; on black, Lc -18.0. 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 14.7 and 15.9 and 24.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e544b
protanopia
#57574b · ΔE00 14.7
deuteranopia
#5d5d4a · ΔE00 15.9
tritanopia
#626200 · ΔE00 24.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDouble Fudge at ΔE00 0.408: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Double FudgeΔE00 0.408 · #6d544b
- Piney WoodΔE00 1.168 · #70574f
- Tonka BeanΔE00 1.635 · #6b524c
- Caramelised WalnutΔE00 1.911 · #6e564a
- Painted LeatherΔE00 1.959 · #6d544f
- Natural BarkΔE00 1.985 · #6d574d
- BistroΔE00 1.986 · #705950
- Calthan BrownΔE00 2.068 · #6d5044
- Double ChocolateΔE00 2.08 · #6f5245
- Bargeboard BrownΔE00 2.216 · #68534a
- Brown RidgeΔE00 2.246 · #735852
- Terrace BrownΔE00 2.292 · #73544d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.