Toffee
#755139
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
#755139
RGB
117, 81, 57
OKLCh
46.8% 0.060 54.4°
CIELAB (D50)
38.0, 13.3, 20.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.2; on black, Lc -17.8. 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 17.6 and 17.7 and 21.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.99:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#755139
protanopia
#565639 · ΔE00 17.6
deuteranopia
#5d5d37 · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#656500 · ΔE00 21.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmber Rust at ΔE00 0.427: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Umber RustΔE00 0.427 · #765138
- Seed BrownΔE00 1.023 · #734f39
- Old CopperΔE00 1.191 · #73503b
- Tamarind FruitΔE00 1.337 · #75503b
- CoffeeΔE00 1.617 · #6f4e37
- Cellar DoorΔE00 1.779 · #75553f
- Walnut WoodΔE00 1.845 · #774e37
- Leather & LaceΔE00 2.014 · #76563e
- Ancient SpiceΔE00 2.024 · #765640
- BisonΔE00 2.083 · #6e4f3a
- Tuscan BrownΔE00 2.093 · #6f4c37
- BrownstoneΔE00 2.332 · #785441
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.