Baby Bear
#6f5944
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
#6f5944
RGB
111, 89, 68
OKLCh
48.0% 0.043 65.2°
CIELAB (D50)
39.7, 6.9, 15.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.6; on black, Lc -19.3. 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 12.4 and 12.8 and 18.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6f5944
protanopia
#5c5c44 · ΔE00 12.4
deuteranopia
#606043 · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#656500 · ΔE00 18.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLog Cabin at ΔE00 0.574: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Log CabinΔE00 0.574 · #705a46
- Alpha MaleΔE00 0.63 · #715a45
- Tobacco BrownΔE00 0.635 · #6d5843
- Mexican ChocolateΔE00 1.261 · #6f5a48
- Tol Barad GreenΔE00 1.365 · #6c5846
- Cinnamon CrumbleΔE00 1.425 · #705742
- DapperΔE00 1.524 · #715b49
- Christmas OrnamentΔE00 1.683 · #6e5a49
- StampedeΔE00 1.887 · #725d4b
- Chocolate DiamondsΔE00 1.888 · #6b5947
- Breakfast BlendΔE00 1.913 · #6d5542
- Burley WoodΔE00 1.924 · #695641
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.