Hold Your Horses
#705446
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
#705446
RGB
112, 84, 70
OKLCh
47.1% 0.043 47.8°
CIELAB (D50)
38.4, 10.5, 13.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 only 34% 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 83.8; on black, Lc -18.2. 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 15.6 and 16.6 and 22.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.05:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#705446
protanopia
#585846 · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#5d5d45 · ΔE00 16.6
tritanopia
#636300 · ΔE00 22.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDouble Chocolate at ΔE00 0.913: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Double ChocolateΔE00 0.913 · #6f5245
- Brevity BrownΔE00 1.214 · #715243
- Rue BourbonΔE00 1.479 · #705749
- Rookwood Medium BrownΔE00 1.575 · #6e5241
- Moroccan HennaΔE00 1.586 · #6e5043
- Calthan BrownΔE00 1.695 · #6d5044
- Caramelised WalnutΔE00 1.699 · #6e564a
- Heavy SienaΔE00 1.713 · #735848
- BriarΔE00 1.733 · #745443
- Plantation ShuttersΔE00 1.776 · #6a5143
- Mournfang BrownΔE00 1.811 · #6f5749
- SpiceΔE00 1.948 · #6c4f3f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.