Count Chocula
#5e2d10
An orange that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#5e2d10
RGB
94, 45, 16
OKLCh
35.8% 0.082 48.1°
CIELAB (D50)
25.0, 21.2, 28.3
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 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.7; 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 20.5 and 21.1 and 22.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.86:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5e2d10
protanopia
#353511 · ΔE00 20.5
deuteranopia
#40400b · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#4a4a00 · ΔE00 22.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Fudge at ΔE00 2.369: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Hot FudgeΔE00 2.369 · #5e2912
- MeatloafΔE00 2.443 · #663311
- Baker’s ChocolateΔE00 2.516 · #5c3317
- BockΔE00 2.73 · #5d341a
- Fudge BrownieΔE00 2.916 · #572b16
- OverbakedΔE00 2.971 · #61311c
- Conker BrownΔE00 3.195 · #552200
- Cold Press CoffeeΔE00 3.678 · #6c2e09
- Evil CigarΔE00 3.809 · #522000
- Chubby ChocolateΔE00 3.897 · #613521
- Raw ChocolateΔE00 4.347 · #662200
- RoasteryΔE00 4.619 · #692302
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.