Blood Oath
#85323c
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#85323c
RGB
133, 50, 60
OKLCh
43.8% 0.114 15.9°
CIELAB (D50)
33.5, 36.9, 13.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.1; on black, Lc -14.0. 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 26.0 and 30.7 and 40.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.34:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.34:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#85323c
protanopia
#42423d · ΔE00 26.0
deuteranopia
#555539 · ΔE00 30.7
tritanopia
#666600 · ΔE00 40.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWild Currant at ΔE00 1.947: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wild CurrantΔE00 1.947 · #7c3239
- Luxurious RedΔE00 1.952 · #863a42
- BicycletteΔE00 1.958 · #802c3a
- Rushing RedΔE00 1.966 · #8b3643
- Red ChicoryΔE00 1.967 · #883543
- Red PearΔE00 1.992 · #82383c
- Ruby WineΔE00 2.106 · #85393d
- PaprikaΔE00 2.172 · #7c2d37
- Raspberry FoolΔE00 2.282 · #8e3643
- ShirazΔE00 2.468 · #842833
- Thrill RideΔE00 2.48 · #8c283b
- Dark CrimsonΔE00 2.502 · #843c41
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.