Think Brick
#834841
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#834841
RGB
131, 72, 65
OKLCh
47.1% 0.082 27.7°
CIELAB (D50)
37.9, 25.2, 15.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.3; on black, Lc -17.7. 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 24.6 and 26.1 and 32.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.97:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#834841
protanopia
#515141 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#5e5e3f · ΔE00 26.1
tritanopia
#6a6a00 · ΔE00 32.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeco Red at ΔE00 0.466: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deco RedΔE00 0.466 · #824942
- HennaΔE00 0.827 · #864941
- Sly FoxΔE00 0.836 · #804741
- PartridgeΔE00 1.261 · #844c44
- SavannaΔE00 1.403 · #874c44
- Spice of LifeΔE00 1.416 · #86493f
- Spiced BerryΔE00 1.499 · #85443f
- Richardson BrickΔE00 1.606 · #854c47
- Terra CoveΔE00 1.625 · #844c47
- SequoiaΔE00 1.896 · #84463b
- Sweet SpiceberryΔE00 1.929 · #7b453e
- Red BluffΔE00 2.081 · #824e46
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.