Annatto
#8c5341
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8c5341
RGB
140, 83, 65
OKLCh
50.3% 0.082 38.3°
CIELAB (D50)
41.8, 23.0, 21.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.4; on black, Lc -21.5. 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 23.3 and 23.9 and 29.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.43:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8c5341
protanopia
#5c5c41 · ΔE00 23.3
deuteranopia
#68683e · ΔE00 23.9
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 29.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHipsterfication at ΔE00 1.156: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- HipsterficationΔE00 1.156 · #88513e
- True CopperΔE00 1.228 · #8b5643
- IronstoneΔE00 1.666 · #865040
- Antler MothΔE00 1.709 · #864f3e
- Mule FawnΔE00 1.76 · #884f40
- Wiener DogΔE00 1.773 · #874e3c
- Prairie ClayΔE00 1.922 · #935444
- Ruskin RedΔE00 2.035 · #935242
- Brown PatinaΔE00 2.106 · #8a5640
- Cherry ColaΔE00 2.223 · #894c3b
- Rustic BrownΔE00 2.301 · #935848
- Earth CrustΔE00 2.301 · #8c4f42
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.