Arcane Red
#6a2f2f
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#6a2f2f
RGB
106, 47, 47
OKLCh
38.6% 0.085 21.8°
CIELAB (D50)
27.9, 26.9, 13.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.2; on black, Lc -9.3. 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 24.5 and 27.0 and 32.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.19:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.06:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.19:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6a2f2f
protanopia
#39392f · ΔE00 24.5
deuteranopia
#47472d · ΔE00 27.0
tritanopia
#535300 · ΔE00 32.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Lobster Brown at ΔE00 1.277: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spring Lobster BrownΔE00 1.277 · #6c2c2f
- Dried PlumΔE00 1.461 · #683332
- Devil’s LipΔE00 1.507 · #662a2c
- Kenyan CopperΔE00 1.733 · #6c322e
- Makore Veneer RedΔE00 1.823 · #6e2f2c
- Woody BrownΔE00 1.853 · #6e2d2b
- VoluptuousΔE00 1.903 · #673033
- City RoastΔE00 1.987 · #663333
- Rookwood RedΔE00 2.032 · #622f2d
- Red TheatreΔE00 2.196 · #6e3637
- PortΔE00 2.217 · #6d3637
- Crystal Dark RedΔE00 2.242 · #6d2c32
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.