Decreasing Brown
#987654
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
#987654
RGB
152, 118, 84
OKLCh
59.1% 0.064 66.0°
CIELAB (D50)
52.4, 10.4, 24.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.5; on black, Lc -33.1. 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 14.6 and 14.6 and 20.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.15:1 — large text only
Black text
5.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#92704e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#987654
protanopia
#7a7a54 · ΔE00 14.6
deuteranopia
#818153 · ΔE00 14.6
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 20.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGuinea Pig at ΔE00 0.644: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Guinea PigΔE00 0.644 · #987652
- Summerville BrownΔE00 0.891 · #997651
- Treasure CasketΔE00 0.919 · #9b7856
- DirtΔE00 0.967 · #9b7653
- Balsa WoodΔE00 1.113 · #9a7550
- Coco RumΔE00 1.263 · #9b7757
- Cocoa CupcakeΔE00 1.477 · #967859
- Prince ParisΔE00 1.483 · #9d7957
- MochaΔE00 1.619 · #9d7651
- Crunch GranolaΔE00 1.639 · #997a5a
- SagebrushΔE00 1.652 · #947252
- Liver ChestnutΔE00 1.792 · #987456
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.