Ochicha Latte
#6b6047
A yellow 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
#6b6047
RGB
107, 96, 71
OKLCh
49.3% 0.040 87.0°
CIELAB (D50)
41.3, 1.5, 16.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.9; on black, Lc -21.0. 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 6.2 and 6.3 and 14.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.39:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b6047
protanopia
#616147 · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#636347 · ΔE00 6.3
tritanopia
#666600 · ΔE00 14.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOvergrown Trees at ΔE00 0.374: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Overgrown TreesΔE00 0.374 · #6b6048
- Soya BeanΔE00 1.421 · #6f634b
- Cold PressedΔE00 1.821 · #665b42
- Stone PineΔE00 1.834 · #665c46
- Squirrel’s NestΔE00 1.966 · #665e48
- Prairie FoliageΔE00 2.041 · #6e5f45
- Classic BronzeΔE00 2.134 · #6d624e
- Midnight ForestΔE00 2.178 · #685d49
- Gator TailΔE00 2.184 · #665e43
- Covered WagonΔE00 2.262 · #726449
- Kelp BrownΔE00 2.267 · #716246
- Deer TrailΔE00 2.336 · #6a634c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.