Cigar
#7d4e38
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
#7d4e38
RGB
125, 78, 56
OKLCh
47.2% 0.072 45.6°
CIELAB (D50)
38.3, 18.6, 21.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.9; on black, Lc -18.1. 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 20.8 and 21.1 and 25.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.02:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7d4e38
protanopia
#555538 · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#5f5f36 · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 25.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLeather Satchel at ΔE00 0.627: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Leather SatchelΔE00 0.627 · #7c4f3a
- Cheeky ChestnutΔE00 1.201 · #7b4d3a
- Witch WoodΔE00 1.376 · #7c4a33
- Chocolate BonbonΔE00 1.499 · #7e4f35
- Curry BrownΔE00 1.787 · #845038
- Walnut WoodΔE00 1.943 · #774e37
- Sencha BrownΔE00 2.046 · #824b35
- Nougat BrownΔE00 2.066 · #7c503f
- Éclair au ChocolatΔE00 2.093 · #7e4930
- Egyptian JasperΔE00 2.16 · #7a4b3a
- Tortoise ShellΔE00 2.342 · #7c4937
- Riding BootsΔE00 2.548 · #734a35
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.