Chocolate Escape
#623d2e
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#623d2e
RGB
98, 61, 46
OKLCh
40.0% 0.058 42.8°
CIELAB (D50)
30.0, 15.4, 16.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.7; on black, Lc -10.7. 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 19.5 and 20.3 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.23:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#623d2e
protanopia
#42422e · ΔE00 19.5
deuteranopia
#4a4a2c · ΔE00 20.3
tritanopia
#525200 · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrilled at ΔE00 1.117: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GrilledΔE00 1.117 · #633f2e
- Tropical Wood BrownΔE00 1.127 · #603b2a
- CioccolatoΔE00 1.476 · #5d3b2e
- Painted BarkΔE00 1.933 · #5f3d32
- Roasted CoffeeΔE00 1.943 · #684134
- Rugged BrownΔE00 2.359 · #694336
- Worn WoodenΔE00 2.445 · #634333
- Western BrownΔE00 2.462 · #5d3b31
- In Caffeine We TrustΔE00 2.531 · #693c2a
- Terra BrunΔE00 2.597 · #5a382d
- Potting SoilΔE00 2.802 · #5b3e31
- BrunetteΔE00 2.84 · #664238
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.