Nut Cracker
#816c5b
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
#816c5b
RGB
129, 108, 91
OKLCh
54.7% 0.037 60.9°
CIELAB (D50)
47.3, 6.6, 12.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 only 29% 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 74.4; on black, Lc -27.4. 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 11.8 and 12.4 and 20.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.97:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.23:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.97:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#816c5b
protanopia
#6f6f5b · ΔE00 11.8
deuteranopia
#73735a · ΔE00 12.4
tritanopia
#777700 · ΔE00 20.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRikyū Brown at ΔE00 1.028: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rikyū BrownΔE00 1.028 · #826b58
- KaffeeΔE00 1.168 · #816d5a
- Donkey BrownΔE00 1.312 · #816e5c
- Lye TintedΔE00 1.351 · #7f6b5d
- CaribouΔE00 1.381 · #816c5e
- Bannister BrownΔE00 1.416 · #806b5d
- Downtown Benny BrownΔE00 1.526 · #7d6a58
- Whiskey BarrelΔE00 1.578 · #85705f
- Salted PretzelΔE00 1.666 · #816b56
- GolemΔE00 1.866 · #836e59
- Antique EarthΔE00 1.886 · #7e6c5f
- Roman CoffeeΔE00 1.977 · #7d6757
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.