Walnut
#773f1a
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#773f1a
RGB
119, 63, 26
OKLCh
43.1% 0.092 51.1°
CIELAB (D50)
33.4, 22.7, 32.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.5; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 21.2 and 22.1 and 24.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.51:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#773f1a
protanopia
#48481b · ΔE00 21.2
deuteranopia
#545415 · ΔE00 22.1
tritanopia
#606000 · ΔE00 24.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeruvian Soil at ΔE00 2.125: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Peruvian SoilΔE00 2.125 · #733d1f
- Kara Cha BrownΔE00 2.215 · #783c1d
- RussetΔE00 2.895 · #80461b
- Rosewood BrownΔE00 3.818 · #72371c
- Red BeechΔE00 3.877 · #7b3801
- Beer Glazed BaconΔE00 3.9 · #773311
- Urban AuburnΔE00 3.903 · #7c4a2c
- Bull ShotΔE00 3.94 · #75442b
- Mummy BrownΔE00 3.941 · #824b27
- Fawn BrownΔE00 3.952 · #71452a
- Philippine BronzeΔE00 3.989 · #6e3a07
- SepiaΔE00 4.05 · #704214
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.