Chivalrous Walrus
#816558
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
#816558
RGB
129, 101, 88
OKLCh
53.1% 0.041 46.2°
CIELAB (D50)
45.4, 10.1, 11.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.5; on black, Lc -25.2. 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 15.3 and 16.3 and 24.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.34:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.94:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.34:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#816558
protanopia
#696958 · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#6e6e57 · ΔE00 16.3
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 24.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuartersawn Oak at ΔE00 1.589: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Quartersawn OakΔE00 1.589 · #85695b
- Hot CocoaΔE00 1.62 · #806257
- Werewolf FurΔE00 1.722 · #7e6152
- Almond TruffleΔE00 1.965 · #7d665b
- Nut BrownΔE00 2.009 · #86695e
- Secret JournalΔE00 2.068 · #7c6055
- Chocolate BlissΔE00 2.076 · #7f6054
- Cocoa ShellΔE00 2.1 · #7e6657
- Betalain RedΔE00 2.148 · #7d655c
- Bear CreekΔE00 2.188 · #836452
- Ranch HouseΔE00 2.244 · #7b645a
- Choco LocoΔE00 2.29 · #7d5f53
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.