Nutmeg
#7e4a3b
A red 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
#7e4a3b
RGB
126, 74, 59
OKLCh
46.6% 0.075 36.9°
CIELAB (D50)
37.5, 21.5, 18.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.7; on black, Lc -17.3. 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 22.9 and 23.5 and 28.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.93:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7e4a3b
protanopia
#52523b · ΔE00 22.9
deuteranopia
#5d5d39 · ΔE00 23.5
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 28.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArmadillo Egg at ΔE00 1.316: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Armadillo EggΔE00 1.316 · #7d4638
- Red ChipotleΔE00 1.339 · #834c3e
- Tortoise ShellΔE00 1.358 · #7c4937
- Egyptian JasperΔE00 1.597 · #7a4b3a
- Chocolate MagmaΔE00 1.757 · #7a463a
- PeanutΔE00 1.97 · #7a4434
- 1975 Earth RedΔE00 2 · #7b463b
- Antler MothΔE00 2.242 · #864f3e
- Mission TileΔE00 2.244 · #874c3e
- Fire RoastedΔE00 2.334 · #79483e
- IronstoneΔE00 2.351 · #865040
- Clay PlayΔE00 2.376 · #774433
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.