Tobacco Leaf
#8c724f
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
#8c724f
RGB
140, 114, 79
OKLCh
56.8% 0.059 74.4°
CIELAB (D50)
49.9, 6.9, 23.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.4; on black, Lc -30.2. 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 11.7 and 11.6 and 16.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.53:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8c724f
protanopia
#75754f · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#7a7a4e · ΔE00 11.6
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 16.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRutherford at ΔE00 0.489: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- RutherfordΔE00 0.489 · #8d734f
- Schindler BrownΔE00 0.761 · #8b714c
- Molasses CookieΔE00 1.032 · #8b714b
- Highland RidgeΔE00 1.464 · #8f714b
- EarthquakeΔE00 1.466 · #8c7553
- Golden FreesiaΔE00 1.538 · #876f4d
- Dull GoldΔE00 1.645 · #8a6f48
- Marrakech BrownΔE00 1.714 · #91734c
- Dull BrownΔE00 1.715 · #876e4b
- Paddle WheelΔE00 1.931 · #88724d
- Favourite FudgeΔE00 1.98 · #877252
- Wine CorkΔE00 2.119 · #866d4c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.