Coffee
#6f4e37
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
#6f4e37
RGB
111, 78, 55
OKLCh
45.4% 0.057 55.6°
CIELAB (D50)
36.4, 12.1, 19.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.8; on black, Lc -16.3. 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 16.8 and 17.0 and 20.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.44:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.82:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.44:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6f4e37
protanopia
#535337 · ΔE00 16.8
deuteranopia
#595936 · ΔE00 17.0
tritanopia
#606000 · ΔE00 20.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBison at ΔE00 0.933: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BisonΔE00 0.933 · #6e4f3a
- GuitarΔE00 1.21 · #6b4c37
- Tuscan BrownΔE00 1.313 · #6f4c37
- Seed BrownΔE00 1.373 · #734f39
- Tilled SoilΔE00 1.433 · #6b4d35
- Old CopperΔE00 1.522 · #73503b
- ToffeeΔE00 1.617 · #755139
- Umber RustΔE00 1.903 · #765138
- Tamarind FruitΔE00 2.089 · #75503b
- Radigan Conagher BrownΔE00 2.176 · #694d3a
- Moose FurΔE00 2.371 · #725440
- Axe HandleΔE00 2.404 · #6b4730
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.