Maroon
#800000
A red that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#800000
RGB
128, 0, 0
OKLCh
37.7% 0.155 29.2°
CIELAB (D50)
26.2, 48.5, 39.4
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 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 92.9; on black, Lc -9.5. 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 32.2 and 34.9 and 37.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.92:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#800000
protanopia
#2b2b03 · ΔE00 32.2
deuteranopia
#474700 · ΔE00 34.9
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 37.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalami at ΔE00 0.42: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SalamiΔE00 0.42 · #820000
- Dark RedΔE00 0.838 · #840000
- Demonic PresenceΔE00 0.974 · #7c0a02
- Red ReignΔE00 1.021 · #800707
- Sacrifice AltarΔE00 1.034 · #850101
- Proton RedΔE00 1.086 · #840804
- ChanticleerΔE00 1.463 · #870000
- Laura PotatoΔE00 1.625 · #800008
- Glass BullΔE00 1.67 · #880000
- Indian RedΔE00 1.678 · #850e04
- Gochujang RedΔE00 1.912 · #770000
- Notes of PlumΔE00 1.989 · #770f05
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.