English Breakfast
#441111
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#441111
RGB
68, 17, 17
OKLCh
26.5% 0.079 24.2°
CIELAB (D50)
14.0, 24.9, 14.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.1; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 23.8 and 25.8 and 28.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.33:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#441111
protanopia
#1c1c11 · ΔE00 23.8
deuteranopia
#28280e · ΔE00 25.8
tritanopia
#323200 · ΔE00 28.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRum Chocolate at ΔE00 2.423: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Rum ChocolateΔE00 2.423 · #450e15
- Minotaur HideΔE00 2.674 · #4a120d
- Red BeanΔE00 2.808 · #3d0c02
- Burnt MaroonΔE00 2.828 · #420303
- Bulgarian RoseΔE00 2.836 · #480607
- Dark SiennaΔE00 2.979 · #3c1414
- BiltongΔE00 3.104 · #410200
- Dirty LeatherΔE00 3.429 · #430005
- BrandywineΔE00 3.452 · #490206
- ErythrophobiaΔE00 3.456 · #4a0505
- EyelidsΔE00 3.542 · #440000
- Charred BrownΔE00 3.975 · #3e0007
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.