Roasted
#785246
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#785246
RGB
120, 82, 70
OKLCh
47.7% 0.055 38.3°
CIELAB (D50)
38.9, 15.2, 13.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.3; on black, Lc -18.6. 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 19.4 and 20.7 and 26.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.09:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#785246
protanopia
#575746 · ΔE00 19.4
deuteranopia
#5f5f45 · ΔE00 20.7
tritanopia
#676700 · ΔE00 26.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAncho Pepper at ΔE00 0.919: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ancho PepperΔE00 0.919 · #7a5145
- Toasted PecanΔE00 1.114 · #765143
- Vandyck BrownΔE00 1.293 · #7b5349
- Leather ClutchΔE00 1.409 · #744e42
- Roxy BrownΔE00 1.681 · #7a5546
- November FoliageΔE00 1.748 · #754d42
- Dark Cherry MochaΔE00 1.846 · #774d41
- Royal LiqueurΔE00 2.005 · #784d40
- Coffee ShopΔE00 2.055 · #725042
- Red RoosterΔE00 2.171 · #7e5146
- BigfootΔE00 2.189 · #715145
- Friar’s BrownΔE00 2.238 · #754e3e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.