Mocha Madness
#8b6b58
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
#8b6b58
RGB
139, 107, 88
OKLCh
55.5% 0.050 52.1°
CIELAB (D50)
48.1, 11.1, 15.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 73.5; on black, Lc -28.2. 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 16.5 and 17.1 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.34:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8b6b58
protanopia
#6f6f58 · ΔE00 16.5
deuteranopia
#767657 · ΔE00 17.1
tritanopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArt and Craft at ΔE00 0.783: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Art and CraftΔE00 0.783 · #896956
- AntiquitiesΔE00 1.308 · #8a6c57
- Mushroom BrownΔE00 1.77 · #906e58
- Dig ItΔE00 1.97 · #8e6e57
- Spiced LatteΔE00 1.978 · #886c57
- LeatherΔE00 2.016 · #906a54
- Brownie ScoutΔE00 2.057 · #916d56
- BeaverΔE00 2.097 · #926f5b
- Suede LeatherΔE00 2.101 · #896757
- Redwood ForestΔE00 2.217 · #916f5e
- Sea Lion BrownΔE00 2.353 · #8c6e60
- Wandering RoadΔE00 2.4 · #876d5e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.