Sanguine
#6c110e
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#6c110e
RGB
108, 17, 14
OKLCh
34.6% 0.125 28.0°
CIELAB (D50)
22.9, 39.2, 28.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.4; 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 28.2 and 31.6 and 34.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.18:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.72:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.18:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6c110e
protanopia
#29290f · ΔE00 28.2
deuteranopia
#3e3e04 · ΔE00 31.6
tritanopia
#4e4e00 · ΔE00 34.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPort Wine at ΔE00 0.716: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Port WineΔE00 0.716 · #6e0c0d
- Coffee BrickΔE00 0.822 · #6f0c0d
- Beastly RedΔE00 1.125 · #680c08
- Chestnut BrownΔE00 1.399 · #6d1008
- Festive BordeauxΔE00 1.415 · #6e0f12
- Blood GodΔE00 1.632 · #67080b
- Blood of ZeusΔE00 1.688 · #640f09
- Adana KebabıΔE00 1.875 · #661111
- Arcavia RedΔE00 1.94 · #6a0002
- Khorne RedΔE00 2.021 · #6a0001
- Reddy BrownΔE00 2.143 · #6e1005
- PruneΔE00 2.208 · #701c11
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.