Close but No Cigar
#361d0a
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#361d0a
RGB
54, 29, 10
OKLCh
26.0% 0.049 55.5°
CIELAB (D50)
13.9, 11.1, 16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.5; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 16.1 and 16.4 and 17.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#361d0a
protanopia
#21210a · ΔE00 16.1
deuteranopia
#262608 · ΔE00 16.4
tritanopia
#2b2b00 · ΔE00 17.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPowdered Cocoa at ΔE00 1.937: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Powdered CocoaΔE00 1.937 · #341c02
- Medium RoastΔE00 2.813 · #3c2005
- Dark EbonyΔE00 3.132 · #3d2004
- 90% CocoaΔE00 3.187 · #3d1c02
- American BronzeΔE00 3.222 · #391802
- Délicieux au ChocolatΔE00 3.578 · #412010
- DarkoutΔE00 3.669 · #2d1608
- Shadow PlayΔE00 3.687 · #2d1403
- Zinnwaldite BrownΔE00 3.78 · #2c1608
- Wetlands SwampΔE00 3.805 · #372418
- Duqqa BrownΔE00 4.059 · #442211
- Black SlugΔE00 4.118 · #332211
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.