Jazz
#5f2c2f
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
#5f2c2f
RGB
95, 44, 47
OKLCh
36.3% 0.074 17.8°
CIELAB (D50)
25.3, 23.9, 9.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 95.4; 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 22.2 and 25.9 and 32.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.89:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5f2c2f
protanopia
#35352f · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#40402d · ΔE00 25.9
tritanopia
#4a4a00 · ΔE00 32.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Truffle at ΔE00 0.82: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate TruffleΔE00 0.82 · #612e32
- Christmas BrownΔE00 0.994 · #5d2b2c
- Kuwazome RedΔE00 1.438 · #59292c
- DubonnetΔE00 1.663 · #5b2c31
- VoluptuousΔE00 1.915 · #673033
- Rampant RhubarbΔE00 2.209 · #603231
- Rookwood RedΔE00 2.313 · #622f2d
- City RoastΔE00 2.412 · #663333
- Devil’s LipΔE00 2.433 · #662a2c
- Dried PlumΔE00 2.926 · #683332
- LovestruckΔE00 2.931 · #6a2e36
- Kremlin RedΔE00 3.081 · #633639
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.