Fire
#8f3f2a
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8f3f2a
RGB
143, 63, 42
OKLCh
46.9% 0.114 35.8°
CIELAB (D50)
37.5, 33.5, 29.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.5; on black, Lc -17.5. 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 26.9 and 29.2 and 33.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8f3f2a
protanopia
#4d4d2b · ΔE00 26.9
deuteranopia
#5f5f25 · ΔE00 29.2
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 33.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrick Paver at ΔE00 1.636: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Brick PaverΔE00 1.636 · #93402f
- Red PrairieΔE00 1.807 · #8e3928
- Tia MariaΔE00 1.863 · #97422d
- Dark Brazilian TopazΔE00 1.981 · #92462f
- Carmen MirandaΔE00 1.997 · #903e2f
- Sedona StoneΔE00 2.021 · #8e462f
- Olive NiçoiseΔE00 2.048 · #88432e
- April LoveΔE00 2.512 · #8b3d2f
- RusticaΔE00 2.672 · #8a3a2c
- Mattar PaneerΔE00 2.72 · #884433
- Grill MasterΔE00 2.846 · #863b2c
- Suzumecha BrownΔE00 2.926 · #8c4736
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.