Hot Brown
#984218
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#984218
RGB
152, 66, 24
OKLCh
48.6% 0.127 43.4°
CIELAB (D50)
39.5, 35.1, 41.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.5; on black, Lc -19.4. 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 27.7 and 29.5 and 32.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#984218
protanopia
#52521a · ΔE00 27.7
deuteranopia
#65650b · ΔE00 29.5
tritanopia
#767600 · ΔE00 32.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAutumn Red at ΔE00 1.207: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Autumn RedΔE00 1.207 · #99451f
- All the Leaves Are BrownΔE00 1.913 · #994411
- Coco MuckΔE00 2.392 · #994a25
- RendangΔE00 2.512 · #9b4b20
- Powdered CoffeeΔE00 2.852 · #a0450e
- Citrine BrownΔE00 2.88 · #933709
- MuddyΔE00 2.917 · #a13905
- Madeira BrownΔE00 3.108 · #8f4826
- Fluorescent FireΔE00 3.368 · #984427
- CatliniteΔE00 3.399 · #9e4d28
- Chocolate CoveredΔE00 3.484 · #8b4121
- ChocoholicΔE00 3.574 · #993300
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.