Warm Brown
#964e02
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#964e02
RGB
150, 78, 2
OKLCh
50.2% 0.121 56.6°
CIELAB (D50)
41.6, 27.8, 50.4
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 80.4; on black, Lc -21.4. 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 23.7 and 24.2 and 25.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.39:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#964e02
protanopia
#5a5a05 · ΔE00 23.7
deuteranopia
#6a6a00 · ΔE00 24.2
tritanopia
#787800 · ΔE00 25.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrownie 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.
- BrownieΔE00 1.039 · #964b00
- MochaccinoΔE00 2.074 · #945200
- Fresh CinnamonΔE00 2.186 · #995511
- Plain Old BrownΔE00 2.554 · #905100
- Burnt BagelΔE00 2.557 · #9a4e12
- Charlie BrownΔE00 2.754 · #995500
- Parasite BrownΔE00 2.909 · #914b13
- OregonΔE00 3.371 · #9b4703
- Sepia WashΔE00 3.485 · #995915
- RouxΔE00 3.89 · #994400
- Mammoth WoolΔE00 3.963 · #995522
- Chocolate PancakesΔE00 4.031 · #884400
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.