Weathered Leather
#90614a
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
#90614a
RGB
144, 97, 74
OKLCh
53.7% 0.070 46.8°
CIELAB (D50)
45.9, 17.6, 21.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.0; on black, Lc -25.7. 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 20.5 and 20.7 and 26.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.99:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#90614a
protanopia
#68684a · ΔE00 20.5
deuteranopia
#717148 · ΔE00 20.7
tritanopia
#7b7b00 · ΔE00 26.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTamarind Tart at ΔE00 0.863: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tamarind TartΔE00 0.863 · #8e604b
- ArtisanΔE00 1.794 · #8f5c45
- Cinnamon SpiceΔE00 1.964 · #935f43
- Gaboon ViperΔE00 2.105 · #8c6450
- Spicy MixΔE00 2.152 · #8b5f4d
- Swiss ChocolateΔE00 2.379 · #8c6150
- Spiced CiderΔE00 2.44 · #915b41
- Mocha DelightΔE00 2.464 · #8e664e
- Western PursuitΔE00 2.513 · #8d5e41
- GoulashΔE00 2.622 · #8d6449
- RawhideΔE00 2.662 · #865e49
- Rustic EarthΔE00 2.682 · #93674c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.