Coconut
#965a3e
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#965a3e
RGB
150, 90, 62
OKLCh
52.9% 0.089 45.3°
CIELAB (D50)
44.8, 23.2, 27.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.1; on black, Lc -24.6. 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 22.4 and 23.3 and 28.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.48:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.83:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.48:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#965a3e
protanopia
#63633f · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#70703b · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 28.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpiced Cider at ΔE00 1.461: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spiced CiderΔE00 1.461 · #915b41
- EtruscanΔE00 1.545 · #9b583c
- Rookwood Terra CottaΔE00 1.665 · #975840
- Chōjicha BrownΔE00 1.766 · #8f583c
- Polished BrownΔE00 1.821 · #985538
- TonichaΔE00 2.046 · #975437
- Chocolate FountainΔE00 2.059 · #9e5b40
- RopeΔE00 2.158 · #8e593c
- Cinnamon SpiceΔE00 2.166 · #935f43
- Harrison RustΔE00 2.171 · #9a5f3f
- Chestnut StallionΔE00 2.181 · #995d3b
- Cinnamon SparkleΔE00 2.246 · #9c5736
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.