Chilli Con Carne
#985e2b
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#985e2b
RGB
152, 94, 43
OKLCh
53.7% 0.100 59.2°
CIELAB (D50)
45.8, 21.0, 38.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.0; on black, Lc -25.7. 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 20.3 and 21.0 and 23.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.97:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#985e2b
protanopia
#67672c · ΔE00 20.3
deuteranopia
#737326 · ΔE00 21.0
tritanopia
#7f7f00 · ΔE00 23.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCathay Spice at ΔE00 2.001: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Cathay SpiceΔE00 2.001 · #9d632d
- Tortoiseshell SpecsΔE00 2.098 · #9c5f22
- Gingerbread CrumbleΔE00 2.633 · #9c5e33
- Buddy BuddyΔE00 2.801 · #976538
- Afghan CarpetΔE00 2.944 · #905e26
- WoodgrainΔE00 2.956 · #996633
- Caramel KissesΔE00 3.041 · #9d652b
- Oregon HazelΔE00 3.065 · #916238
- Carrageen MossΔE00 3.207 · #905d36
- Caramel CaféΔE00 3.212 · #8e5626
- Bright BronzeΔE00 3.212 · #a05822
- Sepia WashΔE00 3.227 · #995915
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.