Chocolate Rain
#714f29
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
#714f29
RGB
113, 79, 41
OKLCh
45.6% 0.070 67.5°
CIELAB (D50)
36.8, 11.5, 28.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.5; on black, Lc -16.6. 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 14.4 and 14.6 and 17.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.36:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.36:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#714f29
protanopia
#545429 · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#5b5b27 · ΔE00 14.6
tritanopia
#626200 · ΔE00 17.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWagon Train at ΔE00 1.097: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wagon TrainΔE00 1.097 · #6d4d27
- Bark BrownΔE00 1.752 · #73532a
- Brown-NoserΔE00 2.417 · #79512c
- Black QueenΔE00 2.449 · #694d27
- Arable BrownΔE00 2.529 · #7a552e
- Cafe RoyaleΔE00 2.537 · #6a4928
- Chocolate BellsΔE00 2.596 · #775130
- Trojan Horse BrownΔE00 2.697 · #775020
- Vintage WoodΔE00 2.739 · #72491e
- Monks RobeΔE00 2.767 · #704822
- Pickled BeanΔE00 2.913 · #6e4826
- Antique BrassΔE00 3.061 · #6c461f
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.