Chocolate Covered
#8b4121
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8b4121
RGB
139, 65, 33
OKLCh
46.5% 0.111 42.5°
CIELAB (D50)
37.2, 30.6, 34.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.9; on black, Lc -17.1. 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 25.5 and 27.2 and 30.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.88:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8b4121
protanopia
#4e4e22 · ΔE00 25.5
deuteranopia
#5e5e1a · ΔE00 27.2
tritanopia
#6d6d00 · ΔE00 30.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHoney Garlic Beef at ΔE00 1.447: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Honey Garlic BeefΔE00 1.447 · #884422
- Dusky OrangeΔE00 1.639 · #873e1a
- Madeira BrownΔE00 2.124 · #8f4826
- GingerbreadΔE00 3 · #8c4a2f
- Fluorescent FireΔE00 3.17 · #984427
- Sedona StoneΔE00 3.26 · #8e462f
- Autumn RedΔE00 3.356 · #99451f
- Two CentsΔE00 3.469 · #854a2e
- Hot BrownΔE00 3.484 · #984218
- Olive NiçoiseΔE00 3.553 · #88432e
- Gryphonne Sepia WashΔE00 3.579 · #883f11
- Dark Brazilian TopazΔE00 3.584 · #92462f
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.