Barolo
#71000e
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#71000e
RGB
113, 0, 14
OKLCh
34.6% 0.140 24.7°
CIELAB (D50)
22.7, 44.5, 28.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- 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 29.7 and 34.3 and 37.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.71:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#71000e
protanopia
#252510 · ΔE00 29.7
deuteranopia
#3e3e02 · ΔE00 34.3
tritanopia
#515100 · ΔE00 37.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlood Brother at ΔE00 1.214: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blood BrotherΔE00 1.214 · #770011
- CinnabarΔE00 1.306 · #730113
- Festive BordeauxΔE00 1.464 · #6e0f12
- Port WineΔE00 1.634 · #6e0c0d
- Coffee BrickΔE00 1.647 · #6f0c0d
- Mythical WineΔE00 2.096 · #7a0a14
- Blood GodΔE00 2.131 · #67080b
- SanguineΔE00 2.28 · #6c110e
- Japanese MapleΔE00 2.412 · #780109
- ArterialΔE00 2.421 · #711518
- Blood PactΔE00 2.434 · #771111
- Arcavia RedΔE00 2.437 · #6a0002
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.