Pumpernickel
#6c462d
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
#6c462d
RGB
108, 70, 45
OKLCh
43.1% 0.065 53.5°
CIELAB (D50)
33.7, 14.7, 22.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.3; on black, Lc -13.9. 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 18.1 and 18.2 and 21.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.23:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.55:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.23:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6c462d
protanopia
#4b4b2d · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#53532b · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#5b5b00 · ΔE00 21.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAxe Handle at ΔE00 0.883: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Axe HandleΔE00 0.883 · #6b4730
- AloeswoodΔE00 1.531 · #6a432d
- Semi Sweet ChocolateΔE00 1.68 · #6b4226
- Van Dyke BrownΔE00 1.743 · #664228
- Davao DurianΔE00 1.764 · #6c4226
- Fawn BrownΔE00 1.783 · #71452a
- TriassicΔE00 2.001 · #67422d
- TajΔE00 2.15 · #734a33
- FlatteryΔE00 2.469 · #6b4424
- Tuscan BrownΔE00 2.478 · #6f4c37
- Cape PalliserΔE00 2.479 · #75482f
- BroomstickΔE00 2.495 · #74462d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.