Indochine
#9c5b34
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9c5b34
RGB
156, 91, 52
OKLCh
53.8% 0.101 50.2°
CIELAB (D50)
45.8, 24.8, 34.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.1; on black, Lc -25.6. 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 22.7 and 23.9 and 27.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.96:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9c5b34
protanopia
#656535 · ΔE00 22.7
deuteranopia
#737330 · ΔE00 23.9
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 27.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isToffee Crunch at ΔE00 1.418: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Toffee CrunchΔE00 1.418 · #995e39
- Glazed GingerΔE00 1.587 · #a15c30
- Chestnut StallionΔE00 1.612 · #995d3b
- Gingerbread CrumbleΔE00 1.657 · #9c5e33
- Hampton BeachΔE00 1.709 · #9d603b
- Desert SoilΔE00 1.937 · #a15f3b
- Copper CreekΔE00 1.951 · #a35d31
- Seared EarthΔE00 2.05 · #9a5633
- WarmthΔE00 2.175 · #9f552d
- Cinnamon SparkleΔE00 2.351 · #9c5736
- Harrison RustΔE00 2.358 · #9a5f3f
- Ethiopian WolfΔE00 2.376 · #985629
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.