Chocolate Rush
#4e1b0b
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4e1b0b
RGB
78, 27, 11
OKLCh
29.8% 0.081 37.5°
CIELAB (D50)
17.9, 23.8, 22.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 100.3; 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 22.9 and 23.5 and 25.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.14:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.14:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e1b0b
protanopia
#25250c · ΔE00 22.9
deuteranopia
#303006 · ΔE00 23.5
tritanopia
#3b3b00 · ΔE00 25.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Puce at ΔE00 1.7: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- French PuceΔE00 1.7 · #4e1609
- Earth BrownΔE00 1.86 · #4f1507
- Peaty BrownΔE00 2.096 · #552211
- Barbecue SauceΔE00 2.293 · #471c0f
- Old StudyΔE00 2.589 · #431705
- Hull RedΔE00 2.791 · #4d140b
- BeanΔE00 2.874 · #4a1207
- Black ChocolateΔE00 2.911 · #441100
- Baragon BrownΔE00 3.312 · #551100
- Bath in ChocolateΔE00 3.895 · #411900
- BurnedΔE00 4.042 · #520b00
- Minotaur HideΔE00 4.111 · #4a120d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.