Heavy Heart
#771122
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#771122
RGB
119, 17, 34
OKLCh
37.1% 0.134 18.8°
CIELAB (D50)
25.6, 43.2, 19.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 94.2; on black, Lc -8.3. 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 27.9 and 33.5 and 39.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.89:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#771122
protanopia
#2c2c23 · ΔE00 27.9
deuteranopia
#44441d · ΔE00 33.5
tritanopia
#565600 · ΔE00 39.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWine Red at ΔE00 1.648: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wine RedΔE00 1.648 · #7b0323
- Evil ForcesΔE00 2.042 · #770022
- OxbloodΔE00 2.088 · #800020
- Surya RedΔE00 2.268 · #70191f
- Jazzy RedΔE00 2.505 · #771c2b
- Seattle RedΔE00 2.679 · #7d212a
- Biking RedΔE00 2.681 · #7b222a
- Red BerryΔE00 2.713 · #701f28
- Deep Dairei RedΔE00 2.782 · #7c2229
- Sweet Cherry RedΔE00 3.146 · #84172c
- RhubarbΔE00 3.279 · #7f222e
- Antique RubyΔE00 3.317 · #841b2d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.