Espresso
#4e312d
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
#4e312d
RGB
78, 49, 45
OKLCh
34.7% 0.043 28.1°
CIELAB (D50)
23.9, 13.2, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 31% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.7; 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 16.5 and 18.5 and 25.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.80:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e312d
protanopia
#35352d · ΔE00 16.5
deuteranopia
#3b3b2c · ΔE00 18.5
tritanopia
#414100 · ΔE00 25.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBarako Brew at ΔE00 1.327: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Barako BrewΔE00 1.327 · #4b2d2a
- American MahoganyΔE00 1.581 · #52352f
- Indian FigΔE00 1.76 · #54332e
- Brown CoffeeΔE00 1.8 · #4a2c2a
- Rojo MarrónΔE00 1.835 · #4b3029
- LineageΔE00 2.091 · #4c3430
- AcajouΔE00 2.174 · #4c2f27
- Decadent ChocolateΔE00 2.633 · #513233
- Intergalactic RayΔE00 2.677 · #573935
- Mid CenturyΔE00 2.81 · #553333
- Van CleefΔE00 2.88 · #523936
- Barn SwallowΔE00 2.911 · #4d332a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.