Bloodlust
#6b1c1a
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#6b1c1a
RGB
107, 28, 26
OKLCh
35.6% 0.112 26.1°
CIELAB (D50)
24.2, 35.3, 22.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.8; 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 27.0 and 29.8 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.81:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b1c1a
protanopia
#2e2e1b · ΔE00 27.0
deuteranopia
#404015 · ΔE00 29.8
tritanopia
#4f4f00 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPersian Plum at ΔE00 1.105: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Persian PlumΔE00 1.105 · #701c1c
- ArterialΔE00 1.725 · #711518
- CherrywoodΔE00 1.925 · #651a14
- Adana KebabıΔE00 2.264 · #661111
- Festive BordeauxΔE00 2.366 · #6e0f12
- Surya RedΔE00 2.376 · #70191f
- Azuki RedΔE00 2.635 · #672422
- Blood OrganΔE00 2.806 · #630f0f
- IncubusΔE00 2.821 · #772222
- Spanish TileΔE00 2.851 · #702425
- Full City RoastΔE00 2.891 · #662222
- Philippine BrownΔE00 2.979 · #5d1916
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.