Old Study
#431705
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
#431705
RGB
67, 23, 5
OKLCh
27.1% 0.074 41.3°
CIELAB (D50)
14.8, 20.9, 20.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 101.9; 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 22.2 and 22.3 and 23.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.36:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#431705
protanopia
#1f1f06 · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#292902 · ΔE00 22.3
tritanopia
#323200 · ΔE00 23.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBarbecue Sauce at ΔE00 1.622: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Barbecue SauceΔE00 1.622 · #471c0f
- Black ChocolateΔE00 1.975 · #441100
- Bath in ChocolateΔE00 2.347 · #411900
- Chocolate RushΔE00 2.589 · #4e1b0b
- French PuceΔE00 3.148 · #4e1609
- BeanΔE00 3.257 · #4a1207
- Earth BrownΔE00 3.439 · #4f1507
- American BronzeΔE00 3.594 · #391802
- Hull RedΔE00 3.665 · #4d140b
- Délicieux au ChocolatΔE00 3.729 · #412010
- Duqqa BrownΔE00 3.919 · #442211
- Longan’s KernelΔE00 4.027 · #442117
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.