Medium Roast
#3c2005
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
#3c2005
RGB
60, 32, 5
OKLCh
27.6% 0.058 60.3°
CIELAB (D50)
15.7, 12.1, 21.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.7; 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 16.0 and 16.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.99:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.40:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.99:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c2005
protanopia
#242405 · ΔE00 16.1
deuteranopia
#2a2a03 · ΔE00 16.0
tritanopia
#303000 · ΔE00 16.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Ebony at ΔE00 0.411: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dark EbonyΔE00 0.411 · #3d2004
- Powdered CocoaΔE00 2.257 · #341c02
- 90% CocoaΔE00 2.366 · #3d1c02
- Chocolate CastleΔE00 2.719 · #452207
- Blackened BrownΔE00 2.733 · #442200
- Close but No CigarΔE00 2.813 · #361d0a
- Brown StudyΔE00 3.659 · #4a290d
- Ibex BrownΔE00 3.795 · #482400
- Duqqa BrownΔE00 3.975 · #442211
- Délicieux au ChocolatΔE00 4.025 · #412010
- American BronzeΔE00 4.031 · #391802
- ChrysophobiaΔE00 4.36 · #4a2200
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.