Ranch House
#7b645a
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
#7b645a
RGB
123, 100, 90
OKLCh
52.3% 0.034 44.8°
CIELAB (D50)
44.5, 8.3, 9.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 22% 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 77.5; on black, Lc -24.3. 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 13.0 and 14.0 and 23.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.51:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.81:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.51:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7b645a
protanopia
#67675a · ΔE00 13.0
deuteranopia
#6b6b59 · ΔE00 14.0
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 23.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBear Hug at ΔE00 0.626: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bear HugΔE00 0.626 · #796359
- Betalain RedΔE00 0.866 · #7d655c
- Almond TruffleΔE00 0.885 · #7d665b
- Cocoa MilkΔE00 1.143 · #7d675d
- PlumburnΔE00 1.701 · #7d665f
- Deep TaupeΔE00 2.096 · #7b6660
- TraditionalΔE00 2.148 · #776255
- Secret JournalΔE00 2.226 · #7c6055
- Chivalrous WalrusΔE00 2.244 · #816558
- WarriorΔE00 2.296 · #7d685b
- Bold BrandyΔE00 2.369 · #796660
- Cocoa ShellΔE00 2.403 · #7e6657
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.