Chutney
#9f5e4e
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9f5e4e
RGB
159, 94, 78
OKLCh
55.1% 0.089 34.7°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, 25.9, 21.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.5; on black, Lc -27.3. 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 24.7 and 25.7 and 33.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9f5e4e
protanopia
#68684e · ΔE00 24.7
deuteranopia
#76764b · ΔE00 25.7
tritanopia
#838300 · ΔE00 33.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrand Canyon at ΔE00 0.43: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Grand CanyonΔE00 0.43 · #a05d4d
- Remington RustΔE00 0.885 · #a25d4c
- Copper BrownΔE00 1.538 · #9a6051
- Red PotatoΔE00 1.783 · #995d50
- Cajun RedΔE00 1.81 · #a45a4a
- Spicy CayenneΔE00 1.903 · #9b5b4f
- Deer TracksΔE00 2.058 · #a1614c
- Roycroft AdobeΔE00 2.185 · #a76251
- Rust ColouredΔE00 2.189 · #a46454
- Ginger GoldΔE00 2.284 · #996251
- Tuscan RooftopsΔE00 2.326 · #9c6350
- SierraΔE00 2.418 · #a35c46
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.