Brownstone
#785441
An orange 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
#785441
RGB
120, 84, 65
OKLCh
48.0% 0.057 48.8°
CIELAB (D50)
39.3, 13.6, 17.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.9; on black, Lc -19.0. 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 18.3 and 18.8 and 23.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.68:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.14:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.68:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#785441
protanopia
#595941 · ΔE00 18.3
deuteranopia
#606040 · ΔE00 18.8
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 23.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEarth Fired Red at ΔE00 1.004: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Earth Fired RedΔE00 1.004 · #785240
- Florentine BrownΔE00 1.104 · #7a5544
- Wild Bill BrownΔE00 1.158 · #795745
- Wild StallionΔE00 1.264 · #7c5644
- Rich MochaΔE00 1.274 · #745342
- BriarΔE00 1.444 · #745443
- Tamarind FruitΔE00 1.591 · #75503b
- Burns CaveΔE00 1.624 · #7b5847
- Old CopperΔE00 1.833 · #73503b
- Roxy BrownΔE00 1.903 · #7a5546
- DachshundΔE00 2.049 · #7e553e
- Cellar DoorΔE00 2.138 · #75553f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.