Cocoa

#875f42

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

#875f42

RGB

135, 95, 66

OKLCh

52.1% 0.067 56.6°

CIELAB (D50)

44.1, 14.2, 23.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.9; on black, Lc -23.9. 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 17.6 and 17.7 and 22.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.61:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.75:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.61:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#875f42

protanopia

#656542 · ΔE00 17.6

deuteranopia

#6d6d40 · ΔE00 17.7

tritanopia

#757500 · ΔE00 22.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChasm at ΔE00 0.491: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • ChasmΔE00 0.491 · #876044
  • Dark WoodΔE00 0.594 · #855e42
  • Vaquero BootsΔE00 0.64 · #855f43
  • WilmingtonΔE00 0.726 · #886144
  • Artisan TileΔE00 1.007 · #845e40
  • Potter’s PotΔE00 1.15 · #845c40
  • Sedona BrownΔE00 1.23 · #886244
  • Brilliant OakΔE00 1.344 · #8c6143
  • Leather WorkΔE00 1.485 · #8a6347
  • Jute BrownΔE00 1.711 · #815d40
  • Brown ButtonΔE00 1.754 · #876140
  • Coffee BarΔE00 1.849 · #825c43

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