Tobacco
#684f3c
An orange 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
#684f3c
RGB
104, 79, 60
OKLCh
44.9% 0.045 58.5°
CIELAB (D50)
35.9, 8.8, 15.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.3; on black, Lc -15.8. 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 14.2 and 14.7 and 19.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.77:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#684f3c
protanopia
#52523c · ΔE00 14.2
deuteranopia
#57573b · ΔE00 14.7
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 19.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRadigan Conagher Brown at ΔE00 1.342: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Radigan Conagher BrownΔE00 1.342 · #694d3a
- Buckingham PalaceΔE00 1.378 · #6b5140
- Coffee LiqueurΔE00 1.425 · #6a513b
- Black PowerΔE00 1.426 · #654b37
- Dustwallow MarshΔE00 2.071 · #685243
- Breakfast BlendΔE00 2.088 · #6d5542
- Deep UmberΔE00 2.148 · #694d3d
- Rookwood Medium BrownΔE00 2.195 · #6e5241
- BisonΔE00 2.315 · #6e4f3a
- GuitarΔE00 2.373 · #6b4c37
- Beauty SpotΔE00 2.388 · #604938
- MudΔE00 2.394 · #70543e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.