Silken Chocolate
#b77d5f
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b77d5f
RGB
183, 125, 95
OKLCh
64.2% 0.084 48.1°
CIELAB (D50)
58.0, 20.6, 25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.7; on black, Lc -39.9. 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 21.3 and 22.0 and 28.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.44:1 — large text only
Black text
6.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a2694c 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
#b77d5f
protanopia
#85855f · ΔE00 21.3
deuteranopia
#91915d · ΔE00 22.0
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 28.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaramel Apple at ΔE00 1.328: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Caramel AppleΔE00 1.328 · #b87a59
- Japanese Wax TreeΔE00 1.937 · #b77b57
- Apricot MixΔE00 2.113 · #b47756
- Pastry ShellΔE00 2.25 · #b77d58
- Campfire BlazeΔE00 2.3 · #b67656
- SundialΔE00 2.316 · #c0805d
- Autumn’s HillΔE00 2.463 · #ba7a61
- Tobey RattanΔE00 2.518 · #ad785c
- Myrtle PepperΔE00 2.605 · #b77961
- Happy TrailsΔE00 2.673 · #b67a63
- Brown ClayΔE00 2.98 · #c37c59
- Moroccan SkyΔE00 3.032 · #bf7756
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.