Barbera
#8b031c
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8b031c
RGB
139, 3, 28
OKLCh
40.4% 0.161 22.1°
CIELAB (D50)
29.1, 51.4, 29.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.6; on black, Lc -11.7. 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 31.4 and 37.7 and 42.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.13:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8b031c
protanopia
#30301e · ΔE00 31.4
deuteranopia
#4e4e12 · ΔE00 37.7
tritanopia
#646400 · ΔE00 42.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOld Wine at ΔE00 1.168: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Old WineΔE00 1.168 · #90091f
- BurgundyΔE00 1.36 · #900020
- Nigritella RedΔE00 2.077 · #931121
- Sneaky DevilΔE00 2.252 · #840014
- Red Mulled WineΔE00 2.681 · #880022
- Xmas CandyΔE00 2.717 · #990020
- ShinshuΔE00 2.783 · #8f1d21
- SuccubusΔE00 2.8 · #990022
- Sacred ScarletΔE00 2.853 · #950c1b
- Flame HawkfishΔE00 3.003 · #960018
- Red DevilΔE00 3.069 · #860111
- BloodthirstyΔE00 3.07 · #880011
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.