Indian Red
#850e04
A red that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#850e04
RGB
133, 14, 4
OKLCh
39.4% 0.152 30.2°
CIELAB (D50)
28.2, 47.5, 40.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.8; on black, Lc -10.6. 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 32.0 and 34.7 and 37.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.18:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.06:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.18:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#850e04
protanopia
#313107 · ΔE00 32.0
deuteranopia
#4c4c00 · ΔE00 34.7
tritanopia
#606000 · ΔE00 37.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isProton Red at ΔE00 0.731: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Proton RedΔE00 0.731 · #840804
- Roasted PepperΔE00 0.918 · #890a01
- ChanticleerΔE00 0.965 · #870000
- Sacrifice AltarΔE00 0.988 · #850101
- Glass BullΔE00 1.004 · #880000
- Dark RedΔE00 1.104 · #840000
- Blood OmenΔE00 1.122 · #8a0303
- Scab RedΔE00 1.32 · #8b0000
- SalamiΔE00 1.357 · #820000
- Sangoire RedΔE00 1.386 · #881100
- MaroonΔE00 1.678 · #800000
- Red LeeverΔE00 1.746 · #881400
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.