Antique Brass
#6c461f
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
#6c461f
RGB
108, 70, 31
OKLCh
42.9% 0.075 64.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.6, 13.9, 29.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.4; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 15.8 and 16.1 and 18.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.53:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6c461f
protanopia
#4b4b1f · ΔE00 15.8
deuteranopia
#53531c · ΔE00 16.1
tritanopia
#5b5b00 · ΔE00 18.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMonks Robe at ΔE00 1.148: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Monks RobeΔE00 1.148 · #704822
- Bunni BrownΔE00 1.321 · #6c4522
- Pickled BeanΔE00 1.646 · #6e4826
- Vintage WoodΔE00 1.702 · #72491e
- Florida’s AlligatorΔE00 1.889 · #664422
- Otter BrownΔE00 1.942 · #654320
- KobichaΔE00 1.981 · #6b4423
- Brown CountdownΔE00 2.072 · #654321
- Cafe RoyaleΔE00 2.158 · #6a4928
- FlatteryΔE00 2.284 · #6b4424
- Pullman BrownΔE00 2.39 · #644117
- SepiaΔE00 2.612 · #704214
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.