Festive Bordeaux
#6e0f12
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#6e0f12
RGB
110, 15, 18
OKLCh
34.9% 0.128 25.8°
CIELAB (D50)
23.2, 40.5, 26.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% 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 96.1; 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 28.5 and 32.3 and 35.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6e0f12
protanopia
#292913 · ΔE00 28.5
deuteranopia
#3f3f09 · ΔE00 32.3
tritanopia
#505000 · ΔE00 35.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPort Wine at ΔE00 1.205: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Port WineΔE00 1.205 · #6e0c0d
- Coffee BrickΔE00 1.301 · #6f0c0d
- SanguineΔE00 1.415 · #6c110e
- BaroloΔE00 1.464 · #71000e
- ArterialΔE00 1.476 · #711518
- Adana KebabıΔE00 1.65 · #661111
- Blood GodΔE00 1.723 · #67080b
- CinnabarΔE00 1.931 · #730113
- Blood BrotherΔE00 2.103 · #770011
- Beastly RedΔE00 2.215 · #680c08
- Blood OrganΔE00 2.242 · #630f0f
- Blood PactΔE00 2.244 · #771111
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.