Blackened Sun
#77150e
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#77150e
RGB
119, 21, 14
OKLCh
37.1% 0.133 29.3°
CIELAB (D50)
25.8, 41.6, 32.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% 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 -8.4. 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 29.4 and 32.9 and 35.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.90:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#77150e
protanopia
#2e2e10 · ΔE00 29.4
deuteranopia
#454501 · ΔE00 32.9
tritanopia
#575700 · ΔE00 35.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSecret Scarlet at ΔE00 1.131: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Secret ScarletΔE00 1.131 · #7a0e0e
- Notes of PlumΔE00 1.459 · #770f05
- Blood PactΔE00 1.465 · #771111
- PruneΔE00 1.801 · #701c11
- UP MaroonΔE00 1.945 · #7b1113
- DemonΔE00 1.951 · #7a0006
- Japanese MapleΔE00 2.01 · #780109
- Obscure OgreΔE00 2.067 · #771908
- Grubby RedΔE00 2.099 · #811412
- Chaotic RedΔE00 2.107 · #740600
- Liquorice RedΔE00 2.113 · #740900
- BloodΔE00 2.119 · #770001
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.