Stone Age Queen
#7a3f2b
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7a3f2b
RGB
122, 63, 43
OKLCh
43.7% 0.088 39.3°
CIELAB (D50)
34.1, 24.8, 24.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.9; on black, Lc -14.3. 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 23.4 and 24.4 and 28.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.16:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.57:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.16:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7a3f2b
protanopia
#49492c · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#565628 · ΔE00 24.4
tritanopia
#626200 · ΔE00 28.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurnished Russet at ΔE00 1.21: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Burnished RussetΔE00 1.21 · #794029
- Cowboy SuedeΔE00 1.395 · #763e2d
- Coppery OrangeΔE00 1.54 · #7f4330
- Copper CanyonΔE00 1.674 · #77422c
- Medium Tuscan RedΔE00 1.771 · #794431
- Cacao NibsΔE00 1.784 · #80442f
- Old CuminΔE00 1.886 · #784430
- Lava CoreΔE00 2.192 · #764031
- PeanutΔE00 2.26 · #7a4434
- Clay PlayΔE00 2.326 · #774433
- Bootstrap LeatherΔE00 2.481 · #793721
- Sunbathing BeautyΔE00 2.619 · #7e4730
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.