Cheeky Chestnut
#7b4d3a
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
#7b4d3a
RGB
123, 77, 58
OKLCh
46.8% 0.069 43.1°
CIELAB (D50)
37.8, 18.4, 19.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.4; on black, Lc -17.6. 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 21.1 and 21.5 and 25.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.96:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7b4d3a
protanopia
#54543a · ΔE00 21.1
deuteranopia
#5d5d38 · ΔE00 21.5
tritanopia
#676700 · ΔE00 25.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEgyptian Jasper at ΔE00 1.037: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Egyptian JasperΔE00 1.037 · #7a4b3a
- Leather SatchelΔE00 1.04 · #7c4f3a
- CigarΔE00 1.201 · #7d4e38
- Nougat BrownΔE00 1.281 · #7c503f
- Tortoise ShellΔE00 1.658 · #7c4937
- Witch WoodΔE00 1.854 · #7c4a33
- Friar’s BrownΔE00 2.179 · #754e3e
- Walnut WoodΔE00 2.368 · #774e37
- Riding BootsΔE00 2.37 · #734a35
- NutmegΔE00 2.386 · #7e4a3b
- Sencha BrownΔE00 2.391 · #824b35
- Royal LiqueurΔE00 2.505 · #784d40
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.