Warrior
#7d685b
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
#7d685b
RGB
125, 104, 91
OKLCh
53.4% 0.034 53.6°
CIELAB (D50)
45.8, 7.1, 10.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.0; on black, Lc -25.7. 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 12.0 and 12.8 and 22.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.00:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7d685b
protanopia
#6b6b5b · ΔE00 12.0
deuteranopia
#6f6f5a · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#737300 · ΔE00 22.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBannister Brown at ΔE00 1.235: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bannister BrownΔE00 1.235 · #806b5d
- Lye TintedΔE00 1.298 · #7f6b5d
- Roman CoffeeΔE00 1.369 · #7d6757
- Cocoa ShellΔE00 1.442 · #7e6657
- Almond TruffleΔE00 1.579 · #7d665b
- CaribouΔE00 1.604 · #816c5e
- Cocoa MilkΔE00 1.657 · #7d675d
- Cobble BrownΔE00 1.742 · #7a6455
- Antique EarthΔE00 1.892 · #7e6c5f
- TraditionalΔE00 2.283 · #776255
- Ranch HouseΔE00 2.296 · #7b645a
- Sea ElephantΔE00 2.336 · #77675c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.