Sizzling Bacon
#8e3537
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8e3537
RGB
142, 53, 55
OKLCh
45.6% 0.121 21.9°
CIELAB (D50)
35.6, 38.6, 19.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.2; on black, Lc -15.9. 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 27.8 and 31.7 and 39.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.71:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8e3537
protanopia
#464638 · ΔE00 27.8
deuteranopia
#5b5b33 · ΔE00 31.7
tritanopia
#6d6d00 · ΔE00 39.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Bay at ΔE00 0.46: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red BayΔE00 0.46 · #8e3738
- Wine CaskΔE00 0.932 · #913338
- Old BrickΔE00 0.953 · #8a3335
- Fire ChiΔE00 1.153 · #92353a
- Tuskgor FurΔE00 1.295 · #883636
- Bindi DotΔE00 1.392 · #8b3439
- Sehnsucht RedΔE00 1.429 · #903037
- Planet of the ApesΔE00 1.465 · #883333
- BookstoneΔE00 1.563 · #8c3432
- Lover’s KissΔE00 1.593 · #8f3b3d
- Romantic NightΔE00 1.719 · #96353a
- Bacchanalia RedΔE00 1.747 · #8a3a3c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.