Namibia
#7c6d61
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
#7c6d61
RGB
124, 109, 97
OKLCh
54.5% 0.026 60.9°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, 4.6, 9.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 74.5; on black, Lc -27.2. 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 8.8 and 9.4 and 21.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.22:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7c6d61
protanopia
#6f6f61 · ΔE00 8.8
deuteranopia
#727261 · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#757500 · ΔE00 21.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDesert Taupe at ΔE00 1.623: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Desert TaupeΔE00 1.623 · #7f7166
- Saruk GreyΔE00 2.01 · #817265
- Cocoa PowderΔE00 2.012 · #766a5f
- TrailheadΔE00 2.085 · #776c61
- Village SquareΔE00 2.139 · #7b6f61
- Shadow CliffΔE00 2.176 · #7a6f66
- Summer SparrowΔE00 2.246 · #816e63
- BraidΔE00 2.295 · #77675b
- Cardamom SpiceΔE00 2.338 · #837165
- Sea ElephantΔE00 2.358 · #77675c
- Carriage StoneΔE00 2.447 · #7e7265
- GroundbreakingΔE00 2.487 · #7b6f60
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.