Single Origin
#713e39
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#713e39
RGB
113, 62, 57
OKLCh
42.5% 0.072 26.5°
CIELAB (D50)
32.6, 22.4, 13.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.2; on black, Lc -13.0. 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 23.1 and 25.1 and 30.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.57:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.45:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.57:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#713e39
protanopia
#464639 · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#515137 · ΔE00 25.1
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 30.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTuscan Russet at ΔE00 1.295: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tuscan RussetΔE00 1.295 · #723d3b
- Florence RedΔE00 1.323 · #753f38
- Wine CellarΔE00 1.339 · #70403d
- Steampunk LeatherΔE00 1.358 · #6f3b34
- CimarronΔE00 1.52 · #6b3d38
- PoisonberryΔE00 1.534 · #73403e
- Red Clay HillΔE00 1.551 · #77413d
- Red PinesΔE00 1.688 · #72423f
- Sequoia RedwoodΔE00 1.689 · #763f3d
- Oxford BrickΔE00 1.713 · #743b39
- Murray RedΔE00 1.742 · #6b3c39
- Metallic CopperΔE00 1.89 · #6e3d34
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.