Frappé au Chocolat
#9a6840
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9a6840
RGB
154, 104, 64
OKLCh
56.1% 0.085 58.5°
CIELAB (D50)
48.8, 17.5, 30.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.8; on black, Lc -28.9. 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 18.6 and 19.1 and 23.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.43:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9a6840
protanopia
#6f6f40 · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#79793d · ΔE00 19.1
tritanopia
#848400 · ΔE00 23.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBottled Ship at ΔE00 1.002: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bottled ShipΔE00 1.002 · #9b6944
- Must Love DogsΔE00 1.182 · #9b6b45
- Chestnut BeachΔE00 1.211 · #9a6844
- Ginger DyΔE00 1.212 · #97653c
- AmbitΔE00 1.276 · #97653f
- Gilded GlamourΔE00 1.435 · #956841
- Buddy BuddyΔE00 1.87 · #976538
- Common JasperΔE00 1.903 · #946943
- Gingerbread BrickΔE00 1.919 · #956a43
- Oiled up KardashianΔE00 2.027 · #996644
- Antiquarian BrownΔE00 2.109 · #946644
- Topaz MountainΔE00 2.127 · #92653f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.