Chinotto
#554747
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#554747
RGB
85, 71, 71
OKLCh
41.2% 0.019 18.0°
CIELAB (D50)
31.6, 6.1, 2.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 12% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.2; on black, Lc -12.1. 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 8.2 and 9.2 and 24.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#554747
protanopia
#494947 · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#4b4b47 · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#4e4e00 · ΔE00 24.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMolasses at ΔE00 2.012: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- MolassesΔE00 2.012 · #574a47
- Wizard’s SpellΔE00 2.165 · #584b4e
- Rich BordeauxΔE00 2.18 · #514142
- Piano BrownΔE00 2.28 · #5c4c4a
- Wild BoysenberryΔE00 2.333 · #5a4747
- Rhodonite BrownΔE00 2.363 · #4d4141
- Polished LeatherΔE00 2.388 · #4f4041
- Black GarnetΔE00 2.392 · #4e4444
- MulchΔE00 2.43 · #4e4240
- Carob ChipΔE00 2.544 · #5a484b
- Christmas PuddingΔE00 2.584 · #564342
- Russian RedΔE00 2.598 · #4d4244
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.