Chivalrous Walrus

#816558

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

#816558

RGB

129, 101, 88

OKLCh

53.1% 0.041 46.2°

CIELAB (D50)

45.4, 10.1, 11.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 28% 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 76.5; on black, Lc -25.2. 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 15.3 and 16.3 and 24.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.34:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.94:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.34:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#816558

protanopia

#696958 · ΔE00 15.3

deuteranopia

#6e6e57 · ΔE00 16.3

tritanopia

#747400 · ΔE00 24.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuartersawn Oak at ΔE00 1.589: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Quartersawn OakΔE00 1.589 · #85695b
  • Hot CocoaΔE00 1.62 · #806257
  • Werewolf FurΔE00 1.722 · #7e6152
  • Almond TruffleΔE00 1.965 · #7d665b
  • Nut BrownΔE00 2.009 · #86695e
  • Secret JournalΔE00 2.068 · #7c6055
  • Chocolate BlissΔE00 2.076 · #7f6054
  • Cocoa ShellΔE00 2.1 · #7e6657
  • Betalain RedΔE00 2.148 · #7d655c
  • Bear CreekΔE00 2.188 · #836452
  • Ranch HouseΔE00 2.244 · #7b645a
  • Choco LocoΔE00 2.29 · #7d5f53

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.