Torrefacto Roast
#4e241e
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
#4e241e
RGB
78, 36, 30
OKLCh
31.7% 0.065 29.6°
CIELAB (D50)
20.2, 19.7, 13.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.2; 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 21.8 and 23.4 and 26.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.60:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e241e
protanopia
#2b2b1e · ΔE00 21.8
deuteranopia
#34341c · ΔE00 23.4
tritanopia
#3d3d00 · ΔE00 26.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTobi Brown at ΔE00 0.827: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tobi BrownΔE00 0.827 · #4c221b
- Bitter ChocolateΔE00 1.712 · #4f2923
- MarmiteΔE00 2.153 · #46221b
- Worcestershire SauceΔE00 2.484 · #572b26
- Caput MortuumΔE00 2.741 · #592720
- CouchΔE00 2.778 · #4e2a20
- Momoshio BrownΔE00 2.847 · #542d24
- Wild BrownΔE00 2.862 · #47241a
- Longan’s KernelΔE00 3.231 · #442117
- BratwurstΔE00 3.607 · #582f2b
- KōrozenΔE00 3.677 · #592b1f
- LonestarΔE00 3.723 · #522426
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.