Kabul
#6c5e53
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6c5e53
RGB
108, 94, 83
OKLCh
49.2% 0.025 60.3°
CIELAB (D50)
41.0, 4.4, 8.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% 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 81.1; on black, Lc -20.7. 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 8.5 and 9.1 and 20.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.24:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.36:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.24:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6c5e53
protanopia
#606053 · ΔE00 8.5
deuteranopia
#626253 · ΔE00 9.1
tritanopia
#656500 · ΔE00 20.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSwiss Brown at ΔE00 0.721: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Swiss BrownΔE00 0.721 · #6e5f53
- Sausalito RidgeΔE00 0.731 · #6a5d53
- Chocolate ChipΔE00 1.031 · #6e5f52
- Homestead BrownΔE00 1.253 · #6f5f52
- DoradoΔE00 1.368 · #6e5f56
- IntrospectiveΔE00 1.406 · #6d6053
- Ageing BarrelΔE00 1.435 · #6a5b4e
- Sunezumi BrownΔE00 1.841 · #6e5f57
- UndergroundΔE00 1.975 · #665a51
- Mink BrownΔE00 2.116 · #67594c
- LeroyΔE00 2.163 · #71635a
- Tea BagΔE00 2.348 · #726259
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.