Crown of Thorns
#763c33
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#763c33
RGB
118, 60, 51
OKLCh
42.8% 0.083 30.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.9, 25.2, 17.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.0; on black, Lc -13.2. 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 24.5 and 25.7 and 31.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.46:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.52:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#763c33
protanopia
#464633 · ΔE00 24.5
deuteranopia
#525230 · ΔE00 25.7
tritanopia
#5e5e00 · ΔE00 31.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDucal at ΔE00 0.571: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- DucalΔE00 0.571 · #763d35
- Red Hot JazzΔE00 0.873 · #773c31
- Smoked PaprikaΔE00 1.229 · #793a30
- Ebi BrownΔE00 1.265 · #773c30
- Capsicum RedΔE00 1.351 · #76392e
- Red PepperΔE00 1.448 · #7a3f38
- Florence RedΔE00 1.493 · #753f38
- Beaten CopperΔE00 1.596 · #73372d
- Brass ScorpionΔE00 1.75 · #773b2e
- Red RobinΔE00 1.916 · #7d4138
- Steampunk LeatherΔE00 1.928 · #6f3b34
- Strong MochaΔE00 1.965 · #6f372d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.