Pastel Brown
#836953
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
#836953
RGB
131, 105, 83
OKLCh
54.0% 0.047 61.8°
CIELAB (D50)
46.6, 8.3, 16.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 75.2; on black, Lc -26.5. 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 13.8 and 14.2 and 20.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.11:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.11:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.11:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#836953
protanopia
#6c6c53 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#717152 · ΔE00 14.2
tritanopia
#777700 · ΔE00 20.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStock Horse at ΔE00 1.018: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Stock HorseΔE00 1.018 · #806852
- Rikyū BrownΔE00 1.536 · #826b58
- Salted PretzelΔE00 1.682 · #816b56
- OtterΔE00 1.696 · #7f674f
- Spiced LatteΔE00 1.724 · #886c57
- Mill CreekΔE00 1.949 · #876e59
- AntiquitiesΔE00 2.37 · #8a6c57
- BatonΔE00 2.422 · #866f5a
- Big Stone BeachΔE00 2.449 · #886e54
- AnthillΔE00 2.5 · #7f684e
- Nut CrackerΔE00 2.558 · #816c5b
- GolemΔE00 2.575 · #836e59
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.