Chocolate Truffle
#612e32
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
#612e32
RGB
97, 46, 50
OKLCh
37.1% 0.074 16.4°
CIELAB (D50)
26.2, 23.9, 8.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.7; on black, Lc -7.9. 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 21.8 and 25.8 and 32.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.95:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#612e32
protanopia
#373732 · ΔE00 21.8
deuteranopia
#424230 · ΔE00 25.8
tritanopia
#4c4c00 · ΔE00 32.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJazz at ΔE00 0.82: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- JazzΔE00 0.82 · #5f2c2f
- VoluptuousΔE00 1.57 · #673033
- DubonnetΔE00 1.608 · #5b2c31
- Christmas BrownΔE00 1.763 · #5d2b2c
- Kuwazome RedΔE00 2.031 · #59292c
- City RoastΔE00 2.218 · #663333
- Rampant RhubarbΔE00 2.265 · #603231
- LovestruckΔE00 2.389 · #6a2e36
- Kremlin RedΔE00 2.47 · #633639
- Rookwood RedΔE00 2.676 · #622f2d
- Devil’s LipΔE00 2.758 · #662a2c
- Dried PlumΔE00 2.837 · #683332
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.