Lonestar
#522426
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
#522426
RGB
82, 36, 38
OKLCh
32.6% 0.069 19.0°
CIELAB (D50)
21.1, 22.1, 9.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.6; 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 21.5 and 24.9 and 30.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.81:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.64:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.81:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#522426
protanopia
#2c2c26 · ΔE00 21.5
deuteranopia
#363624 · ΔE00 24.9
tritanopia
#404000 · ΔE00 30.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKuwazome Red at ΔE00 1.865: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Kuwazome RedΔE00 1.865 · #59292c
- LeesΔE00 1.909 · #4c2226
- VolcanoΔE00 1.981 · #4e2728
- Burnt CrimsonΔE00 2.2 · #582124
- Dark Red BrownΔE00 2.322 · #4a2125
- Christmas BrownΔE00 2.759 · #5d2b2c
- HeathΔE00 2.924 · #4f2a2c
- DubonnetΔE00 3.041 · #5b2c31
- Vino TintoΔE00 3.07 · #4c1c24
- JazzΔE00 3.22 · #5f2c2f
- New Bulgarian RoseΔE00 3.298 · #482427
- Worcestershire SauceΔE00 3.474 · #572b26
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.