Morel
#73645c
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#73645c
RGB
115, 100, 92
OKLCh
51.5% 0.023 49.9°
CIELAB (D50)
43.7, 5.1, 6.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 17% 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 78.3; on black, Lc -23.4. 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 8.9 and 9.6 and 22.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.71:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#73645c
protanopia
#66665c · ΔE00 8.9
deuteranopia
#69695c · ΔE00 9.6
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 22.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMountain Ridge at ΔE00 0.758: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mountain RidgeΔE00 0.758 · #75665e
- Tea BagΔE00 0.92 · #726259
- LeroyΔE00 0.945 · #71635a
- Fozzie BearΔE00 1.306 · #70625c
- Less BrownΔE00 1.521 · #756761
- Wright BrownΔE00 1.595 · #71635e
- Garret BrownΔE00 1.698 · #756861
- Poppy PodsΔE00 1.77 · #736157
- Sea ElephantΔE00 1.858 · #77675c
- Sunezumi BrownΔE00 1.866 · #6e5f57
- DoradoΔE00 1.961 · #6e5f56
- Tyson TaupeΔE00 2.037 · #736458
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.