Chocolate Velvet
#7f7453
A yellow 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
#7f7453
RGB
127, 116, 83
OKLCh
56.0% 0.050 91.8°
CIELAB (D50)
49.2, 0.5, 19.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.2; on black, Lc -29.5. 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 5.4 and 5.4 and 13.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.53:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7f7453
protanopia
#757553 · ΔE00 5.4
deuteranopia
#777753 · ΔE00 5.4
tritanopia
#7a7a00 · ΔE00 13.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOlive Sapling at ΔE00 0.31: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Olive SaplingΔE00 0.31 · #7f7452
- Cabbage GreenΔE00 0.484 · #807553
- Pesto GreenΔE00 0.685 · #817553
- Becker GoldΔE00 0.698 · #7f7353
- Private AffairΔE00 1.255 · #807658
- Burgundy SnailΔE00 1.401 · #7e7150
- Olive OchreΔE00 1.682 · #837752
- BoaΔE00 1.783 · #7f7755
- FermataΔE00 2.192 · #7b7054
- WoodbridgeΔE00 2.294 · #847451
- Dried HerbΔE00 2.34 · #847a59
- Go BenΔE00 2.549 · #786e4c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.