Dockside Red
#813533
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#813533
RGB
129, 53, 51
OKLCh
43.3% 0.106 24.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.2, 33.4, 18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.5; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 26.7 and 29.3 and 36.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#813533
protanopia
#434334 · ΔE00 26.7
deuteranopia
#545430 · ΔE00 29.3
tritanopia
#646400 · ΔE00 36.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeirloom Tomato at ΔE00 0.617: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Heirloom TomatoΔE00 0.617 · #833633
- Tall PoppyΔE00 0.872 · #853534
- Tuskgor FurΔE00 1.568 · #883636
- Planet of the ApesΔE00 1.595 · #883333
- Old BrickΔE00 2.093 · #8a3335
- Russet BrownΔE00 2.116 · #823d38
- Fired BrickΔE00 2.12 · #793030
- Auburn LightsΔE00 2.125 · #78342f
- Kilauea LavaΔE00 2.152 · #843d38
- Strong EnvyΔE00 2.451 · #782e2c
- BookstoneΔE00 2.497 · #8c3432
- Chocolate BarΔE00 2.512 · #773333
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.