Peanut
#7a4434
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
#7a4434
RGB
122, 68, 52
OKLCh
44.8% 0.079 37.3°
CIELAB (D50)
35.4, 22.6, 20.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.7; on black, Lc -15.4. 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 23.1 and 23.8 and 28.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.70:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7a4434
protanopia
#4c4c34 · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#585831 · ΔE00 23.8
tritanopia
#636300 · ΔE00 28.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClay Play at ΔE00 0.921: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Clay PlayΔE00 0.921 · #774433
- Armadillo EggΔE00 1.199 · #7d4638
- Medium Tuscan RedΔE00 1.229 · #794431
- Lava CoreΔE00 1.356 · #764031
- Aged TeakΔE00 1.493 · #7a4134
- Monterey ChestnutΔE00 1.645 · #7d4235
- Old CuminΔE00 1.702 · #784430
- Tortoise ShellΔE00 1.729 · #7c4937
- Coppery OrangeΔE00 1.757 · #7f4330
- Chocolate MagmaΔE00 1.793 · #7a463a
- Cowboy SuedeΔE00 1.921 · #763e2d
- NutmegΔE00 1.97 · #7e4a3b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.