Buried Lust
#772200
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#772200
RGB
119, 34, 0
OKLCh
38.4% 0.125 38.3°
CIELAB (D50)
27.4, 36.7, 39.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 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 93.1; on black, Lc -9.3. 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 27.8 and 29.2 and 31.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.01:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#772200
protanopia
#343402 · ΔE00 27.8
deuteranopia
#484800 · ΔE00 29.2
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 31.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShaku-Do Copper at ΔE00 0.492: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Shaku-Do CopperΔE00 0.492 · #752100
- Burning SteppesΔE00 0.675 · #742100
- Drip CoffeeΔE00 1.561 · #7a280a
- ChestnutΔE00 1.811 · #742802
- Centipede BrownΔE00 2.325 · #6d2400
- Reddish BrownΔE00 2.422 · #7f2b0a
- Cedar Wood FinishΔE00 2.481 · #711a00
- Mahogany BrownΔE00 2.512 · #812308
- New Kenyan CopperΔE00 2.563 · #7c1c05
- Doombull BrownΔE00 2.681 · #7c1e08
- RoasteryΔE00 3.073 · #692302
- CaponataΔE00 3.285 · #822a10
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.