Wild West
#7e5c52
A red 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
#7e5c52
RGB
126, 92, 82
OKLCh
50.7% 0.048 37.0°
CIELAB (D50)
42.5, 13.3, 11.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 79.6; on black, Lc -22.2. 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 17.7 and 19.2 and 26.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.54:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7e5c52
protanopia
#616152 · ΔE00 17.7
deuteranopia
#676751 · ΔE00 19.2
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 26.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpanish Chestnut at ΔE00 1.87: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spanish ChestnutΔE00 1.87 · #7f5f52
- Chocolate BlissΔE00 1.925 · #7f6054
- Choco LocoΔE00 1.972 · #7d5f53
- AcornΔE00 1.997 · #7f5e50
- Sequoia DuskΔE00 2.226 · #795953
- Hot CocoaΔE00 2.431 · #806257
- Smoked AlmondΔE00 2.477 · #84625a
- Secret JournalΔE00 2.478 · #7c6055
- Red Wattle HogΔE00 2.532 · #765952
- CloveΔE00 2.625 · #876155
- PicadorΔE00 3.002 · #765c52
- Hanover BrickΔE00 3.037 · #885d53
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.