Hazelnut Chocolate
#7b3f00
An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7b3f00
RGB
123, 63, 0
OKLCh
43.5% 0.105 57.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.9, 24.0, 44.2
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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.0; on black, Lc -14.2. 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 21.3 and 21.8 and 23.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.55:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7b3f00
protanopia
#494902 · ΔE00 21.3
deuteranopia
#565600 · ΔE00 21.8
tritanopia
#626200 · ΔE00 23.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAncient Planks at ΔE00 2.531: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Ancient PlanksΔE00 2.531 · #774411
- Red BeechΔE00 2.95 · #7b3801
- Dusky BrownΔE00 2.96 · #774400
- Chocolate PancakesΔE00 3.054 · #884400
- Bloodtracker BrownΔE00 3.152 · #703f00
- Philippine BronzeΔE00 3.362 · #6e3a07
- Bestial BrownΔE00 3.782 · #6b3900
- SepiaΔE00 3.866 · #704214
- Sis KebabΔE00 3.956 · #884411
- RussetΔE00 3.993 · #80461b
- Dried MustardΔE00 4.173 · #804a00
- Flat BrownΔE00 4.326 · #754600
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.