Autumn Gold

#7d623c

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

#7d623c

RGB

125, 98, 60

OKLCh

51.4% 0.064 75.0°

CIELAB (D50)

43.6, 7.5, 25.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.4; on black, Lc -23.3. 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 11.7 and 11.7 and 15.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.70:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.68:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.70:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#7d623c

protanopia

#65653c · ΔE00 11.7

deuteranopia

#6b6b3b · ΔE00 11.7

tritanopia

#707000 · ΔE00 15.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWell Read at ΔE00 0.735: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Well ReadΔE00 0.735 · #7e633f
  • Seasoned AcornΔE00 1.547 · #7f6640
  • Berkeley HillsΔE00 1.662 · #7e613f
  • Rawhide CanoeΔE00 1.935 · #7a643f
  • Coyote BrownΔE00 1.952 · #81613c
  • Nut OilΔE00 1.957 · #775d38
  • Graham CrustΔE00 1.963 · #806240
  • BreenΔE00 1.999 · #795d34
  • Queen LionessΔE00 2.024 · #77613d
  • Brick BrownΔE00 2.078 · #77603f
  • Dirt BrownΔE00 2.14 · #836539
  • Bright UmberΔE00 2.192 · #826644

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.