Golem
#836e59
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
#836e59
RGB
131, 110, 89
OKLCh
55.3% 0.041 66.8°
CIELAB (D50)
48.0, 6.1, 15.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 33% 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 73.6; on black, Lc -28.1. 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 11.6 and 12.0 and 19.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.34:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#836e59
protanopia
#717159 · ΔE00 11.6
deuteranopia
#757558 · ΔE00 12.0
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 19.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAztec Temple at ΔE00 0.842: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Aztec TempleΔE00 0.842 · #84705b
- KaffeeΔE00 0.906 · #816d5a
- BatonΔE00 1.065 · #866f5a
- Salted PretzelΔE00 1.182 · #816b56
- Donkey BrownΔE00 1.271 · #816e5c
- Thatch BrownΔE00 1.685 · #867057
- Fetched StickΔE00 1.736 · #86725f
- Rikyū BrownΔE00 1.743 · #826b58
- Mill CreekΔE00 1.797 · #876e59
- Nut CrackerΔE00 1.866 · #816c5b
- Whiskey BarrelΔE00 1.945 · #85705f
- BraunΔE00 2.018 · #897058
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.