Ripasso
#94312f
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#94312f
RGB
148, 49, 47
OKLCh
45.9% 0.134 25.1°
CIELAB (D50)
35.9, 42.1, 25.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.8; on black, Lc -16.3. 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 29.3 and 33.6 and 40.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#94312f
protanopia
#464630 · ΔE00 29.3
deuteranopia
#5d5d29 · ΔE00 33.6
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 40.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRedbox at ΔE00 0.586: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- RedboxΔE00 0.586 · #94332f
- Poisonous AppleΔE00 1.318 · #993333
- Guardsman RedΔE00 1.359 · #952e31
- Red OchreΔE00 1.365 · #953334
- Decadent RedΔE00 1.783 · #8d3630
- ThunderbirdΔE00 1.887 · #923830
- BookstoneΔE00 1.947 · #8c3432
- Potion № 9ΔE00 2.076 · #8f3129
- Vermilion SeabassΔE00 2.076 · #973a36
- Dorset NagaΔE00 2.119 · #9d2c31
- Milano RedΔE00 2.124 · #9e3332
- Ruby SlippersΔE00 2.135 · #9c2e33
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.