Cappuccino
#704a3a
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
#704a3a
RGB
112, 74, 58
OKLCh
44.8% 0.058 43.6°
CIELAB (D50)
35.5, 15.1, 16.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.6; on black, Lc -15.5. 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 19.4 and 20.2 and 24.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.69:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.73:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.69:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#704a3a
protanopia
#4f4f3a · ΔE00 19.4
deuteranopia
#575738 · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#5f5f00 · ΔE00 24.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBirdhouse Brown at ΔE00 1.263: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Birdhouse BrownΔE00 1.263 · #6c483a
- EvolutionΔE00 1.317 · #704a3d
- Burned BrownΔE00 1.377 · #6f4b3e
- Friar’s BrownΔE00 1.507 · #754e3e
- Arabic CoffeeΔE00 1.613 · #6f4d3f
- Fondue FudgeΔE00 1.673 · #6d4b3e
- BrisketΔE00 1.747 · #6e4534
- Satin SoilΔE00 1.759 · #6b4836
- Dancing DogsΔE00 1.764 · #6e493d
- Santana SoulΔE00 1.769 · #714636
- Brown VelvetΔE00 1.801 · #704e40
- TiramisuΔE00 1.857 · #744b3e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.