Couch
#4e2a20
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
#4e2a20
RGB
78, 42, 32
OKLCh
32.9% 0.057 36.4°
CIELAB (D50)
21.7, 16.3, 14.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.3; 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 20.0 and 21.2 and 23.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.53:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.68:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.53:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e2a20
protanopia
#303020 · ΔE00 20.0
deuteranopia
#37371e · ΔE00 21.2
tritanopia
#3f3f00 · ΔE00 23.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMomoshio Brown at ΔE00 1.613: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Momoshio BrownΔE00 1.613 · #542d24
- Wild BrownΔE00 1.96 · #47241a
- Bitter ChocolateΔE00 1.989 · #4f2923
- MarmiteΔE00 2.712 · #46221b
- Torrefacto RoastΔE00 2.778 · #4e241e
- AcajouΔE00 2.856 · #4c2f27
- Longan’s KernelΔE00 2.871 · #442117
- Tobi BrownΔE00 2.874 · #4c221b
- Boson BrownΔE00 3.085 · #552c1c
- KōrozenΔE00 3.225 · #592b1f
- Worcestershire SauceΔE00 3.451 · #572b26
- Night BrownΔE00 3.583 · #44281b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.