Leather
#906a54
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
#906a54
RGB
144, 106, 84
OKLCh
55.7% 0.059 51.2°
CIELAB (D50)
48.4, 13.5, 18.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.2; on black, Lc -28.5. 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 18.2 and 18.5 and 24.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.38:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#906a54
protanopia
#6f6f54 · ΔE00 18.2
deuteranopia
#777753 · ΔE00 18.5
tritanopia
#7f7f00 · ΔE00 24.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSable Brown at ΔE00 1.29: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sable BrownΔE00 1.29 · #946a52
- Brownie ScoutΔE00 1.293 · #916d56
- Mocha DelightΔE00 1.63 · #8e664e
- Warm NutmegΔE00 1.686 · #8f6a50
- Rio RustΔE00 1.727 · #926956
- Mushroom BrownΔE00 1.784 · #906e58
- Burnished BrandyΔE00 1.945 · #8b664e
- Wheat PennyΔE00 1.997 · #976b53
- BeaverΔE00 2.015 · #926f5b
- Mocha MadnessΔE00 2.016 · #8b6b58
- Caramel SwirlΔE00 2.052 · #8f6a4f
- ThrushΔE00 2.188 · #936b4f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.