Dark Chocolate
#624a49
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#624a49
RGB
98, 74, 73
OKLCh
43.4% 0.033 21.3°
CIELAB (D50)
34.0, 10.4, 4.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 88.0; on black, Lc -14.2. 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 13.0 and 14.8 and 27.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.09:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.60:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.09:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#624a49
protanopia
#4d4d49 · ΔE00 13.0
deuteranopia
#525248 · ΔE00 14.8
tritanopia
#575700 · ΔE00 27.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAged Chocolate at ΔE00 1.102: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Aged ChocolateΔE00 1.102 · #5f4947
- Soul SearchingΔE00 1.11 · #624c4c
- Wild RaisinΔE00 1.183 · #614746
- Plum RaisinΔE00 1.594 · #644847
- French RoastΔE00 1.64 · #644c48
- Congo BrownΔE00 1.799 · #654d49
- EmbarcaderoΔE00 1.856 · #5d4643
- Robeson RoseΔE00 1.87 · #654f4f
- LiverΔE00 1.871 · #654a46
- Purple EarthΔE00 1.929 · #624646
- Outer BoundaryΔE00 2.003 · #654846
- MustangΔE00 2.036 · #5e4a47
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.