Mocha
#9d7651
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
#9d7651
RGB
157, 118, 81
OKLCh
59.6% 0.071 64.3°
CIELAB (D50)
52.9, 12.3, 26.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.9; on black, Lc -33.7. 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 15.6 and 15.7 and 20.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.08:1 — large text only
Black text
5.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966f4a 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
#9d7651
protanopia
#7b7b51 · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#83834f · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 20.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDirt at ΔE00 0.733: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- DirtΔE00 0.733 · #9b7653
- Golden GloveΔE00 0.806 · #9e7551
- Balsa WoodΔE00 0.857 · #9a7550
- Summerville BrownΔE00 1.348 · #997651
- Treasure CasketΔE00 1.372 · #9b7856
- Prince ParisΔE00 1.411 · #9d7957
- Coco RumΔE00 1.567 · #9b7757
- Cigar BoxΔE00 1.588 · #9c7351
- Guinea PigΔE00 1.61 · #987652
- Decreasing BrownΔE00 1.619 · #987654
- StetsonΔE00 1.675 · #9e7a58
- Olympic BronzeΔE00 1.714 · #9a724a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.