Volcanic Island
#605244
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
#605244
RGB
96, 82, 68
OKLCh
44.8% 0.029 67.0°
CIELAB (D50)
36.0, 4.2, 10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 86.2; on black, Lc -15.9. 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 8.7 and 9.2 and 18.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.53:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.53:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#605244
protanopia
#545444 · ΔE00 8.7
deuteranopia
#565644 · ΔE00 9.2
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 18.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDried Leaf at ΔE00 1.318: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dried LeafΔE00 1.318 · #5c5043
- Star AniseΔE00 1.383 · #5c5042
- Stony FieldΔE00 1.435 · #615547
- Brown SuedeΔE00 1.616 · #5b4f41
- CanteenΔE00 1.636 · #5e5347
- Tea ChestΔE00 1.873 · #605547
- RockΔE00 1.996 · #5a4d41
- OspreyΔE00 1.999 · #63564b
- Judge GreyΔE00 2.136 · #5d5346
- Cabin FeverΔE00 2.155 · #5e5349
- Walnut HullΔE00 2.201 · #5d5242
- Afternoon TeaΔE00 2.311 · #594e40
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.