Espresso Martini
#8c3a00
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8c3a00
RGB
140, 58, 0
OKLCh
45.4% 0.126 46.7°
CIELAB (D50)
35.7, 33.8, 47.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.1; on black, Lc -16.0. 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 26.7 and 27.6 and 29.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.72:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8c3a00
protanopia
#494903 · ΔE00 26.7
deuteranopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 27.6
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 29.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGryphonne Sepia Wash at ΔE00 2.196: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Gryphonne Sepia WashΔE00 2.196 · #883f11
- Coffee AddictionΔE00 2.24 · #883300
- Korichnewyi BrownΔE00 3.002 · #8d4512
- Otterly BrownΔE00 3.043 · #8c4512
- Citrine BrownΔE00 3.048 · #933709
- Sis KebabΔE00 3.111 · #884411
- Saddle BrownΔE00 3.112 · #8b4513
- Beef Noodle BrothΔE00 3.188 · #8a4512
- ChocoholicΔE00 3.812 · #993300
- All the Leaves Are BrownΔE00 3.815 · #994411
- Red BeechΔE00 3.823 · #7b3801
- RouxΔE00 3.876 · #994400
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.