Chocolate Bells
#775130
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
#775130
RGB
119, 81, 48
OKLCh
46.9% 0.070 60.8°
CIELAB (D50)
38.2, 13.6, 25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.1; on black, Lc -17.9. 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 16.4 and 16.5 and 19.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.99:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.00:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.99:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#775130
protanopia
#565630 · ΔE00 16.4
deuteranopia
#5e5e2e · ΔE00 16.5
tritanopia
#666600 · ΔE00 19.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPheasant Brown at ΔE00 1.193: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pheasant BrownΔE00 1.193 · #795435
- Brown-NoserΔE00 1.208 · #79512c
- Arable BrownΔE00 2.336 · #7a552e
- Cold Brew CoffeeΔE00 2.404 · #785736
- EmperadorΔE00 2.432 · #79573a
- Über UmberΔE00 2.441 · #7b5838
- Château MantleΔE00 2.579 · #7c583a
- Chocolate RainΔE00 2.596 · #714f29
- Brazilian BrownΔE00 2.657 · #7f5131
- Umber RustΔE00 2.721 · #765138
- Kinsusutake BrownΔE00 2.724 · #7d4e2d
- Lion’s LairΔE00 2.813 · #81522e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.