Lynx
#604d47
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
#604d47
RGB
96, 77, 71
OKLCh
43.8% 0.028 38.3°
CIELAB (D50)
34.6, 7.5, 6.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 87.5; on black, Lc -14.6. 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 11.3 and 12.4 and 23.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.65:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#604d47
protanopia
#4f4f47 · ΔE00 11.3
deuteranopia
#535346 · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#575700 · ΔE00 23.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCafe Expreso at ΔE00 1.151: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cafe ExpresoΔE00 1.151 · #5e4c48
- Cabin in the WoodsΔE00 1.416 · #5d4d47
- Bear in MindΔE00 1.49 · #5b4a44
- Chocolate PretzelΔE00 1.639 · #60504b
- Chocolate SoulΔE00 1.704 · #5c4945
- Bear RugΔE00 1.771 · #5a4943
- Chateau BrownΔE00 1.853 · #5b4b44
- MustangΔE00 1.932 · #5e4a47
- Mystic TaupeΔE00 2.102 · #5a4742
- Baronial BrownΔE00 2.216 · #5a4840
- Rookwood Dark BrownΔE00 2.267 · #5f4d43
- Shopping BagΔE00 2.276 · #5a4743
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.