Ebi Brown
#773c30
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#773c30
RGB
119, 60, 48
OKLCh
42.9% 0.085 32.7°
CIELAB (D50)
33.0, 25.4, 19.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.9; on black, Lc -13.3. 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 24.4 and 25.4 and 30.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.49:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.47:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.49:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#773c30
protanopia
#464630 · ΔE00 24.4
deuteranopia
#53532d · ΔE00 25.4
tritanopia
#5f5f00 · ΔE00 30.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Hot Jazz at ΔE00 0.404: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red Hot JazzΔE00 0.404 · #773c31
- Brass ScorpionΔE00 0.542 · #773b2e
- Capsicum RedΔE00 0.895 · #76392e
- Smoked PaprikaΔE00 1.091 · #793a30
- Crown of ThornsΔE00 1.265 · #763c33
- Aged TeakΔE00 1.503 · #7a4134
- Beaten CopperΔE00 1.615 · #73372d
- Lava CoreΔE00 1.745 · #764031
- DucalΔE00 1.777 · #763d35
- Monterey ChestnutΔE00 1.975 · #7d4235
- Cowboy SuedeΔE00 2.057 · #763e2d
- Strong MochaΔE00 2.143 · #6f372d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.