Rampant Rhubarb
#603231
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
#603231
RGB
96, 50, 49
OKLCh
37.6% 0.067 22.0°
CIELAB (D50)
26.9, 21.1, 10.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 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 94.1; on black, Lc -8.4. 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 21.7 and 24.5 and 30.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.51:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.00:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.51:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#603231
protanopia
#393931 · ΔE00 21.7
deuteranopia
#43432f · ΔE00 24.5
tritanopia
#4d4d00 · ΔE00 30.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCity Roast at ΔE00 1.514: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- City RoastΔE00 1.514 · #663333
- Rookwood RedΔE00 1.592 · #622f2d
- AndorraΔE00 1.678 · #633737
- Autumn Leaf RedΔE00 1.902 · #623836
- Dried PlumΔE00 2.05 · #683332
- War GodΔE00 2.058 · #643530
- Christmas BrownΔE00 2.074 · #5d2b2c
- JazzΔE00 2.209 · #5f2c2f
- Chocolate TruffleΔE00 2.265 · #612e32
- BratwurstΔE00 2.351 · #582f2b
- Kremlin RedΔE00 2.356 · #633639
- Hot ChocolateΔE00 2.435 · #683939
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.