Bitter Chocolate
#4f2923
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
#4f2923
RGB
79, 41, 35
OKLCh
32.9% 0.058 30.0°
CIELAB (D50)
21.7, 17.6, 12.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% 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 20.4 and 22.3 and 25.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.55:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.67:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.55:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f2923
protanopia
#2f2f23 · ΔE00 20.4
deuteranopia
#373721 · ΔE00 22.3
tritanopia
#3f3f00 · ΔE00 25.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTorrefacto Roast at ΔE00 1.712: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Torrefacto RoastΔE00 1.712 · #4e241e
- Momoshio BrownΔE00 1.87 · #542d24
- CouchΔE00 1.989 · #4e2a20
- Worcestershire SauceΔE00 2.114 · #572b26
- Tobi BrownΔE00 2.323 · #4c221b
- MarmiteΔE00 2.49 · #46221b
- BratwurstΔE00 2.546 · #582f2b
- Wild BrownΔE00 2.905 · #47241a
- Barako BrewΔE00 3.283 · #4b2d2a
- VolcanoΔE00 3.325 · #4e2728
- Indian FigΔE00 3.333 · #54332e
- Rookwood Dark RedΔE00 3.353 · #4b2929
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.