Sunbathing Beauty
#7e4730
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7e4730
RGB
126, 71, 48
OKLCh
45.9% 0.083 43.0°
CIELAB (D50)
36.6, 22.4, 24.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.5; on black, Lc -16.5. 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 22.3 and 22.9 and 27.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.42:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.42:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7e4730
protanopia
#505031 · ΔE00 22.3
deuteranopia
#5b5b2d · ΔE00 22.9
tritanopia
#676700 · ΔE00 27.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isÉclair au Chocolat at ΔE00 1.023: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Éclair au ChocolatΔE00 1.023 · #7e4930
- Hammered CopperΔE00 1.212 · #834831
- Witch WoodΔE00 1.345 · #7c4a33
- Sencha BrownΔE00 1.447 · #824b35
- Cacao NibsΔE00 1.489 · #80442f
- Old CuminΔE00 1.747 · #784430
- Medium Tuscan RedΔE00 1.858 · #794431
- Copper CanyonΔE00 1.942 · #77422c
- Tortoise ShellΔE00 2.045 · #7c4937
- Coppery OrangeΔE00 2.064 · #7f4330
- Burnished RussetΔE00 2.183 · #794029
- Two CentsΔE00 2.244 · #854a2e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.