Potion № 9
#8f3129
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8f3129
RGB
143, 49, 41
OKLCh
44.9% 0.129 28.2°
CIELAB (D50)
34.9, 40.1, 27.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.8; on black, Lc -15.3. 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 29.0 and 32.6 and 38.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.64:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8f3129
protanopia
#44442a · ΔE00 29.0
deuteranopia
#5a5a23 · ΔE00 32.6
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 38.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Kite at ΔE00 0.801: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red KiteΔE00 0.801 · #913228
- BorschtΔE00 1.301 · #8c2c24
- Kiriume RedΔE00 1.351 · #8b352d
- SaffronautΔE00 1.492 · #932a25
- Bengara RedΔE00 1.702 · #913225
- RedboxΔE00 1.785 · #94332f
- ThunderbirdΔE00 1.795 · #923830
- Decadent RedΔE00 1.804 · #8d3630
- Red ChilliΔE00 1.853 · #95372d
- Vivid AuburnΔE00 1.894 · #922724
- RipassoΔE00 2.076 · #94312f
- Burnt UmberΔE00 2.276 · #8a3324
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.