Minotaurus Brown
#882211
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#882211
RGB
136, 34, 17
OKLCh
41.7% 0.140 32.1°
CIELAB (D50)
31.0, 43.0, 36.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 90.0; on black, Lc -12.3. 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 30.4 and 33.7 and 36.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.28:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#882211
protanopia
#3a3a13 · ΔE00 30.4
deuteranopia
#525202 · ΔE00 33.7
tritanopia
#656500 · ΔE00 36.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSaucisson at ΔE00 1.851: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SaucissonΔE00 1.851 · #882c17
- Uluru RedΔE00 2.009 · #921d0f
- KobeΔE00 2.094 · #882d17
- EmergencyΔE00 2.187 · #911911
- Gulab BrownΔE00 2.337 · #8b2e19
- Chestnut PlumΔE00 2.348 · #852e19
- CaponataΔE00 2.531 · #822a10
- Sugar-Candied PeanutsΔE00 2.536 · #8b2e16
- Mahogany BrownΔE00 2.557 · #812308
- Red LeeverΔE00 2.588 · #881400
- Sangoire RedΔE00 2.635 · #881100
- Indian RedΔE00 2.648 · #850e04
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.