Cocoa
#875f42
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
#875f42
RGB
135, 95, 66
OKLCh
52.1% 0.067 56.6°
CIELAB (D50)
44.1, 14.2, 23.4
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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.9; on black, Lc -23.9. 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 17.6 and 17.7 and 22.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.75:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#875f42
protanopia
#656542 · ΔE00 17.6
deuteranopia
#6d6d40 · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#757500 · ΔE00 22.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChasm at ΔE00 0.491: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ChasmΔE00 0.491 · #876044
- Dark WoodΔE00 0.594 · #855e42
- Vaquero BootsΔE00 0.64 · #855f43
- WilmingtonΔE00 0.726 · #886144
- Artisan TileΔE00 1.007 · #845e40
- Potter’s PotΔE00 1.15 · #845c40
- Sedona BrownΔE00 1.23 · #886244
- Brilliant OakΔE00 1.344 · #8c6143
- Leather WorkΔE00 1.485 · #8a6347
- Jute BrownΔE00 1.711 · #815d40
- Brown ButtonΔE00 1.754 · #876140
- Coffee BarΔE00 1.849 · #825c43
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.