Hot Fudge
#5e2912
An orange that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#5e2912
RGB
94, 41, 18
OKLCh
35.1% 0.085 42.5°
CIELAB (D50)
24.1, 23.5, 26.4
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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.3; 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 22.1 and 22.9 and 24.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.80:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5e2912
protanopia
#323213 · ΔE00 22.1
deuteranopia
#3e3e0d · ΔE00 22.9
tritanopia
#494900 · ΔE00 24.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFudge Brownie at ΔE00 2.355: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Fudge BrownieΔE00 2.355 · #572b16
- Count ChoculaΔE00 2.369 · #5e2d10
- OverbakedΔE00 2.462 · #61311c
- Peaty BrownΔE00 2.964 · #552211
- Conker BrownΔE00 3.438 · #552200
- MoussakaΔE00 3.55 · #6d2a13
- Evil CigarΔE00 3.626 · #522000
- Brown MoelleuxΔE00 3.634 · #662211
- Freshly Roasted CoffeeΔE00 3.837 · #663322
- Raw ChocolateΔE00 3.858 · #662200
- Chubby ChocolateΔE00 3.86 · #613521
- Boson BrownΔE00 3.933 · #552c1c
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.