Dark Wood
#855e42
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
#855e42
RGB
133, 94, 66
OKLCh
51.6% 0.066 56.4°
CIELAB (D50)
43.6, 13.8, 22.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.5; on black, Lc -23.3. 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 17.5 and 17.6 and 22.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.68:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#855e42
protanopia
#636342 · ΔE00 17.5
deuteranopia
#6b6b40 · ΔE00 17.6
tritanopia
#737300 · ΔE00 22.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVaquero Boots at ΔE00 0.424: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vaquero BootsΔE00 0.424 · #855f43
- CocoaΔE00 0.594 · #875f42
- Potter’s PotΔE00 0.718 · #845c40
- ChasmΔE00 0.748 · #876044
- Artisan TileΔE00 0.877 · #845e40
- WilmingtonΔE00 1.16 · #886144
- Coffee BarΔE00 1.299 · #825c43
- Jute BrownΔE00 1.33 · #815d40
- Sedona BrownΔE00 1.617 · #886244
- Muddy MississippiΔE00 1.76 · #805c44
- Leather WorkΔE00 1.883 · #8a6347
- Brilliant OakΔE00 1.903 · #8c6143
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.