Acorn
#7f5e50
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
#7f5e50
RGB
127, 94, 80
OKLCh
51.2% 0.049 44.0°
CIELAB (D50)
43.1, 12.4, 13.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 33% 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 79.0; on black, Lc -22.8. 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 17.4 and 18.5 and 24.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.62:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7f5e50
protanopia
#626250 · ΔE00 17.4
deuteranopia
#69694f · ΔE00 18.5
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 24.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpanish Chestnut at ΔE00 0.586: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Spanish ChestnutΔE00 0.586 · #7f5f52
- Chocolate BlissΔE00 1.181 · #7f6054
- Choco LocoΔE00 1.235 · #7d5f53
- Werewolf FurΔE00 1.809 · #7e6152
- Wild WestΔE00 1.997 · #7e5c52
- Hot CocoaΔE00 2.007 · #806257
- Secret JournalΔE00 2.032 · #7c6055
- Spiced CinnamonΔE00 2.382 · #805b48
- Burns CaveΔE00 2.48 · #7b5847
- Wooden WagonΔE00 2.497 · #815a48
- CloveΔE00 2.623 · #876155
- How NowΔE00 2.631 · #886150
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.