Prune
#701c11
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#701c11
RGB
112, 28, 17
OKLCh
36.5% 0.119 30.8°
CIELAB (D50)
25.2, 36.8, 29.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.9; on black, Lc -7.7. 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 27.6 and 30.5 and 33.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.27:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.86:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.27:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#701c11
protanopia
#2f2f12 · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#434307 · ΔE00 30.5
tritanopia
#535300 · ΔE00 33.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlackened Sun at ΔE00 1.801: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blackened SunΔE00 1.801 · #77150e
- Chestnut BrownΔE00 1.929 · #6d1008
- Reddy BrownΔE00 2.072 · #6e1005
- SanguineΔE00 2.208 · #6c110e
- Tempered ChocolateΔE00 2.275 · #772211
- Hazelnut KissesΔE00 2.306 · #742719
- Blood PactΔE00 2.46 · #771111
- Obscure OgreΔE00 2.559 · #771908
- Coffee BrickΔE00 2.586 · #6f0c0d
- Port WineΔE00 2.662 · #6e0c0d
- Notes of PlumΔE00 2.663 · #770f05
- Secret ScarletΔE00 2.763 · #7a0e0e
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.