Brick Red
#8f1402
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8f1402
RGB
143, 20, 2
OKLCh
41.8% 0.159 31.4°
CIELAB (D50)
30.9, 49.2, 44.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 89.6; on black, Lc -12.7. 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 32.9 and 35.2 and 38.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.27:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8f1402
protanopia
#363606 · ΔE00 32.9
deuteranopia
#525200 · ΔE00 35.2
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 38.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCayenne at ΔE00 0.993: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CayenneΔE00 0.993 · #941100
- Red LeeverΔE00 1.395 · #881400
- Sangoire RedΔE00 1.486 · #881100
- Roasted PepperΔE00 1.819 · #890a01
- Dramatical RedΔE00 1.969 · #991100
- Scoville HighnessΔE00 1.997 · #900405
- Crimson RedΔE00 2.001 · #980001
- Uluru RedΔE00 2.05 · #921d0f
- OU Crimson RedΔE00 2.067 · #990000
- Deep RedΔE00 2.159 · #9a0200
- Scab RedΔE00 2.196 · #8b0000
- Cavalry BrownΔE00 2.265 · #990003
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.