Chocolate Temptation

#956e5f

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

#956e5f

RGB

149, 110, 95

OKLCh

57.4% 0.055 42.0°

CIELAB (D50)

50.2, 14.4, 14.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
It uses only 32% 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 71.1; on black, Lc -30.5. 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 19.1 and 20.1 and 27.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.49:1 — large text only

Black text

4.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#956e5f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#956e5f

protanopia

#73735f · ΔE00 19.1

deuteranopia

#7b7b5e · ΔE00 20.1

tritanopia

#838300 · ΔE00 27.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Curl at ΔE00 1.182: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

Chocolate CurlΔE00 1.182 · #916d5e
Milk Coffee BrownΔE00 1.299 · #966f5d
Wild CattailΔE00 1.352 · #916d5d
Monterey BrownΔE00 1.39 · #946e5c
Badlands SunsetΔE00 1.496 · #936a5b
Mocha MousseΔE00 1.809 · #996e5b
Safari BrownΔE00 1.927 · #976c60
Antique RoseΔE00 1.932 · #997165
Timeless CopperΔE00 2.037 · #976d59
Redwood ForestΔE00 2.043 · #916f5e
Prairie FireΔE00 2.118 · #996e5a
TemptationΔE00 2.255 · #987465

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.