Autumn Gold
#7d623c
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
#7d623c
RGB
125, 98, 60
OKLCh
51.4% 0.064 75.0°
CIELAB (D50)
43.6, 7.5, 25.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.4; on black, Lc -23.3. 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 11.7 and 11.7 and 15.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.68:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7d623c
protanopia
#65653c · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#6b6b3b · ΔE00 11.7
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 15.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWell Read at ΔE00 0.735: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Well ReadΔE00 0.735 · #7e633f
- Seasoned AcornΔE00 1.547 · #7f6640
- Berkeley HillsΔE00 1.662 · #7e613f
- Rawhide CanoeΔE00 1.935 · #7a643f
- Coyote BrownΔE00 1.952 · #81613c
- Nut OilΔE00 1.957 · #775d38
- Graham CrustΔE00 1.963 · #806240
- BreenΔE00 1.999 · #795d34
- Queen LionessΔE00 2.024 · #77613d
- Brick BrownΔE00 2.078 · #77603f
- Dirt BrownΔE00 2.14 · #836539
- Bright UmberΔE00 2.192 · #826644
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.