Otterly Brown
#8c4512
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8c4512
RGB
140, 69, 18
OKLCh
47.2% 0.114 50.7°
CIELAB (D50)
38.1, 28.5, 42.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 92% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.0; on black, Lc -18.0. 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 24.2 and 25.4 and 27.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.98:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8c4512
protanopia
#515114 · ΔE00 24.2
deuteranopia
#616105 · ΔE00 25.4
tritanopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 27.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKorichnewyi Brown at ΔE00 0.246: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Korichnewyi BrownΔE00 0.246 · #8d4512
- Saddle BrownΔE00 0.261 · #8b4513
- Beef Noodle BrothΔE00 0.497 · #8a4512
- Sis KebabΔE00 0.943 · #884411
- Brown Eyed GirlΔE00 1.601 · #89491a
- Gryphonne Sepia WashΔE00 2.142 · #883f11
- Parasite BrownΔE00 2.215 · #914b13
- NightcapΔE00 2.497 · #934c1d
- Chocolate PancakesΔE00 2.938 · #884400
- Espresso MartiniΔE00 3.043 · #8c3a00
- RussetΔE00 3.116 · #80461b
- All the Leaves Are BrownΔE00 3.143 · #994411
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.