Peat Brown
#5a3d29
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
#5a3d29
RGB
90, 61, 41
OKLCh
38.8% 0.052 55.2°
CIELAB (D50)
28.8, 11.2, 17.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.7; on black, Lc -9.7. 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 16.2 and 16.5 and 19.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.13:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5a3d29
protanopia
#414129 · ΔE00 16.2
deuteranopia
#474728 · ΔE00 16.5
tritanopia
#4d4d00 · ΔE00 19.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBracken at ΔE00 0.802: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BrackenΔE00 0.802 · #5b3d27
- Weathered BambooΔE00 1.285 · #593a27
- Tuk TukΔE00 1.409 · #573b2a
- Carnaby TanΔE00 1.678 · #5b3a24
- Kuro BrownΔE00 1.909 · #583822
- Real BrownΔE00 2.037 · #563d2d
- Irish CoffeeΔE00 2.277 · #62422b
- Boston Brown BreadΔE00 2.53 · #614432
- Antique BrownΔE00 2.882 · #553f2d
- BonanzaΔE00 2.981 · #523b2c
- Brown HenΔE00 3.116 · #5e442c
- Potting SoilΔE00 3.196 · #5b3e31
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.