Mocha Delight
#8e664e
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
#8e664e
RGB
142, 102, 78
OKLCh
54.5% 0.063 52.0°
CIELAB (D50)
47.0, 14.3, 20.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.8; on black, Lc -26.9. 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 18.5 and 18.7 and 24.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.16:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8e664e
protanopia
#6b6b4e · ΔE00 18.5
deuteranopia
#74744c · ΔE00 18.7
tritanopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 24.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurnished Brandy at ΔE00 1.004: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Burnished BrandyΔE00 1.004 · #8b664e
- GoulashΔE00 1.29 · #8d6449
- Rustic EarthΔE00 1.542 · #93674c
- LeatherΔE00 1.63 · #906a54
- Gaboon ViperΔE00 1.71 · #8c6450
- Obscure OchreΔE00 1.767 · #88654e
- Warm NutmegΔE00 1.853 · #8f6a50
- Sable BrownΔE00 1.867 · #946a52
- Webcap BrownΔE00 2.044 · #8f684b
- Caramel SwirlΔE00 2.077 · #8f6a4f
- Leather WorkΔE00 2.095 · #8a6347
- ThrushΔE00 2.379 · #936b4f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.