Brownie
#964b00
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#964b00
RGB
150, 75, 0
OKLCh
49.7% 0.123 54.7°
CIELAB (D50)
40.9, 29.4, 50.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.1; on black, Lc -20.8. 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 24.5 and 25.0 and 26.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.36:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.30:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.36:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#964b00
protanopia
#585803 · ΔE00 24.5
deuteranopia
#686800 · ΔE00 25.0
tritanopia
#777700 · ΔE00 26.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWarm Brown at ΔE00 1.039: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Warm BrownΔE00 1.039 · #964e02
- Burnt BagelΔE00 2.22 · #9a4e12
- Parasite BrownΔE00 2.407 · #914b13
- OregonΔE00 2.473 · #9b4703
- RouxΔE00 2.893 · #994400
- MochaccinoΔE00 3.064 · #945200
- Fresh CinnamonΔE00 3.065 · #995511
- Plain Old BrownΔE00 3.418 · #905100
- Chocolate PancakesΔE00 3.496 · #884400
- Charlie BrownΔE00 3.759 · #995500
- NightcapΔE00 4.081 · #934c1d
- Korichnewyi BrownΔE00 4.118 · #8d4512
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.