Silk Satin
#8b4248
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8b4248
RGB
139, 66, 72
OKLCh
47.4% 0.100 16.5°
CIELAB (D50)
37.9, 32.1, 11.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.1; on black, Lc -17.9. 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 25.2 and 29.1 and 39.4 — 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
#8b4248
protanopia
#4f4f48 · ΔE00 25.2
deuteranopia
#5f5f45 · ΔE00 29.1
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 39.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCordovan at ΔE00 0.908: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CordovanΔE00 0.908 · #893f45
- Barn RedΔE00 1.177 · #8b4044
- Winning RedΔE00 1.265 · #894144
- BoleroΔE00 1.394 · #88464a
- Rhubarb SmoothieΔE00 1.408 · #8c474b
- Apple-a-DayΔE00 1.598 · #903f45
- Red EleganceΔE00 1.995 · #85464b
- Cherry CobblerΔE00 2 · #883f41
- LusciousΔE00 2.063 · #903d49
- Banana BlossomΔE00 2.135 · #933e49
- Fired ClayΔE00 2.165 · #884444
- Dark CrimsonΔE00 2.192 · #843c41
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.