Handmade
#7f735f
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
#7f735f
RGB
127, 115, 95
OKLCh
56.1% 0.033 80.5°
CIELAB (D50)
49.1, 2.3, 12.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 29% 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 72.3; on black, Lc -29.4. 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 6.8 and 7.1 and 17.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.52:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7f735f
protanopia
#74745f · ΔE00 6.8
deuteranopia
#77775f · ΔE00 7.1
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 17.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isColusa Wetlands at ΔE00 0.879: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Colusa WetlandsΔE00 0.879 · #7f725c
- BackcountryΔE00 1.164 · #7c725f
- Coriander OchreΔE00 1.399 · #7e7463
- Dinosaur BoneΔE00 1.472 · #827563
- The CottageΔE00 1.518 · #837663
- StonewallΔE00 1.613 · #807661
- SwampΔE00 1.636 · #7f755f
- Natural HabitatΔE00 1.638 · #82745c
- Dry DockΔE00 1.682 · #817665
- Tankard GreyΔE00 1.73 · #7d7463
- Dusky GreenΔE00 1.882 · #7a705b
- Villa OlivaΔE00 1.94 · #817362
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.