Chestnut
#742802
An orange that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#742802
RGB
116, 40, 2
OKLCh
38.6% 0.116 41.6°
CIELAB (D50)
27.9, 32.9, 38.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.0; on black, Lc -9.5. 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 26.1 and 27.3 and 29.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.05:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#742802
protanopia
#373704 · ΔE00 26.1
deuteranopia
#494900 · ΔE00 27.3
tritanopia
#585800 · ΔE00 29.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCentipede Brown at ΔE00 1.683: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Centipede BrownΔE00 1.683 · #6d2400
- Buried LustΔE00 1.811 · #772200
- Burning SteppesΔE00 1.921 · #742100
- Shaku-Do CopperΔE00 1.951 · #752100
- Drip CoffeeΔE00 2.185 · #7a280a
- Reddish BrownΔE00 2.656 · #7f2b0a
- RoasteryΔE00 2.667 · #692302
- Cold Press CoffeeΔE00 2.758 · #6c2e09
- Beer Glazed BaconΔE00 2.788 · #773311
- Raw ChocolateΔE00 3.221 · #662200
- MoussakaΔE00 3.818 · #6d2a13
- Cedar Wood FinishΔE00 3.84 · #711a00
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.