Mustang
#5e4a47
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
#5e4a47
RGB
94, 74, 71
OKLCh
42.9% 0.028 28.2°
CIELAB (D50)
33.5, 8.4, 5.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 16% 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 88.5; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 11.6 and 12.8 and 24.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.55:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5e4a47
protanopia
#4d4d47 · ΔE00 11.6
deuteranopia
#505046 · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 24.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Soul at ΔE00 0.848: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate SoulΔE00 0.848 · #5c4945
- Cafe ExpresoΔE00 1.212 · #5e4c48
- Shopping BagΔE00 1.332 · #5a4743
- Mystic TaupeΔE00 1.658 · #5a4742
- Piano BrownΔE00 1.884 · #5c4c4a
- Wild BoysenberryΔE00 1.916 · #5a4747
- LynxΔE00 1.932 · #604d47
- Soul SearchingΔE00 2.018 · #624c4c
- Mahogany SpiceΔE00 2.056 · #5b4646
- Bear in MindΔE00 2.275 · #5b4a44
- Bear RugΔE00 2.342 · #5a4943
- Spanish RaisinΔE00 2.349 · #61504e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.