Heavy Brown
#73624a
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
#73624a
RGB
115, 98, 74
OKLCh
50.6% 0.042 76.1°
CIELAB (D50)
42.7, 4.2, 16.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.4; on black, Lc -22.4. 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 9.4 and 9.7 and 16.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.57:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#73624a
protanopia
#64644a · ΔE00 9.4
deuteranopia
#676749 · ΔE00 9.7
tritanopia
#6b6b00 · ΔE00 16.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidnight Brown at ΔE00 0.961: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Midnight BrownΔE00 0.961 · #706048
- Ancient EarthΔE00 1.642 · #746550
- Khemri BrownΔE00 1.734 · #76664c
- Tree SwingΔE00 1.913 · #726144
- Prairie FoliageΔE00 1.962 · #6e5f45
- Ground PepperΔE00 2.037 · #766551
- Olive WoodΔE00 2.075 · #756244
- Kelp BrownΔE00 2.075 · #716246
- Covered WagonΔE00 2.227 · #726449
- CraterΔE00 2.256 · #75674f
- Military OliveΔE00 2.269 · #706043
- South KingstonΔE00 2.356 · #76614b
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.