Köfte Brown

#773644

A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#773644

RGB

119, 54, 68

OKLCh

42.3% 0.092 8.3°

CIELAB (D50)

32.0, 30.1, 5.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.6; on black, Lc -12.6. 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 21.9 and 27.6 and 39.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

8.77:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.40:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at8.77:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#773644

protanopia

#414144 · ΔE00 21.9

deuteranopia

#505042 · ΔE00 27.6

tritanopia

#5d5d00 · ΔE00 39.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSatin Chocolate at ΔE00 1.045: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Satin ChocolateΔE00 1.045 · #773344
  • Red OctopusΔE00 1.165 · #773243
  • Cordova BurgundyΔE00 1.38 · #7c3744
  • CatawbaΔE00 1.649 · #703642
  • Ripe RhubarbΔE00 1.676 · #7e3947
  • July RubyΔE00 1.846 · #773b4a
  • CamelotΔE00 2.268 · #803a4b
  • Amfissa OliveΔE00 2.304 · #783e48
  • Vintage MerlotΔE00 2.403 · #763d4b
  • Ripening GrapeΔE00 2.432 · #6f3942
  • Chestnut RedΔE00 2.51 · #6c333f
  • Garnet EveningΔE00 2.514 · #763b42

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.