Milk Chocolate
#7f4e1e
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7f4e1e
RGB
127, 78, 30
OKLCh
47.1% 0.090 61.6°
CIELAB (D50)
38.3, 18.1, 36.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 83% 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 18.3 and 18.9 and 20.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.97:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.01:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.97:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7f4e1e
protanopia
#55551f · ΔE00 18.3
deuteranopia
#606019 · ΔE00 18.9
tritanopia
#6a6a00 · ΔE00 20.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrecious Copper at ΔE00 2.74: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Precious CopperΔE00 2.74 · #885522
- ValiseΔE00 2.918 · #80502b
- Trojan Horse BrownΔE00 3.044 · #775020
- Brown-NoserΔE00 3.241 · #79512c
- Ancient PlanksΔE00 3.276 · #774411
- Vintage WoodΔE00 3.297 · #72491e
- Plane BrownΔE00 3.323 · #8a5024
- Lion’s LairΔE00 3.35 · #81522e
- Lamb ChopΔE00 3.439 · #82502c
- Medium BrownΔE00 3.476 · #7f5112
- RussetΔE00 3.576 · #80461b
- Arable BrownΔE00 3.891 · #7a552e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.