Coco Muck
#994a25
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#994a25
RGB
153, 74, 37
OKLCh
50.2% 0.117 43.9°
CIELAB (D50)
41.4, 31.9, 37.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.6; on black, Lc -21.2. 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 26.3 and 28.0 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.36:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#994a25
protanopia
#585826 · ΔE00 26.3
deuteranopia
#69691e · ΔE00 28.0
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCatlinite at ΔE00 1.354: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CatliniteΔE00 1.354 · #9e4d28
- Autumn RedΔE00 1.377 · #99451f
- RendangΔE00 1.536 · #9b4b20
- Khaki BrownΔE00 1.587 · #954e2a
- Leather BrownΔE00 1.911 · #97502b
- Madeira BrownΔE00 2.299 · #8f4826
- Hot BrownΔE00 2.392 · #984218
- Hawaiian CoconutΔE00 2.431 · #99522c
- RustyΔE00 2.492 · #96512a
- HamburgerΔE00 2.508 · #a34e25
- Ancient ChestΔE00 2.51 · #99522b
- Texas Ranger BrownΔE00 2.677 · #a0522d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.