Olive Niçoise
#88432e
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#88432e
RGB
136, 67, 46
OKLCh
46.6% 0.100 37.7°
CIELAB (D50)
37.2, 28.8, 26.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.8; on black, Lc -17.2. 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 25.0 and 26.6 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.27:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.89:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.27:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#88432e
protanopia
#4f4f2f · ΔE00 25.0
deuteranopia
#5e5e2a · ΔE00 26.6
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMattar Paneer at ΔE00 1.486: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mattar PaneerΔE00 1.486 · #884433
- Sedona StoneΔE00 1.572 · #8e462f
- Deep Orange-Coloured BrownΔE00 1.787 · #864735
- Burning BrierΔE00 1.943 · #884736
- Cacao NibsΔE00 2.014 · #80442f
- FireΔE00 2.048 · #8f3f2a
- Suzumecha BrownΔE00 2.074 · #8c4736
- Coppery OrangeΔE00 2.209 · #7f4330
- Hammered CopperΔE00 2.329 · #834831
- Dark Brazilian TopazΔE00 2.337 · #92462f
- Remember Me RedΔE00 2.339 · #8a4536
- BrickhouseΔE00 2.341 · #864a36
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.