Choco Chic
#993311
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#993311
RGB
153, 51, 17
OKLCh
46.7% 0.143 37.2°
CIELAB (D50)
36.9, 42.3, 42.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 92% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.8; on black, Lc -17.2. 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 30.7 and 33.2 and 35.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.84:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#993311
protanopia
#484813 · ΔE00 30.7
deuteranopia
#606000 · ΔE00 33.2
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 35.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHawaiian Malasada at ΔE00 0.929: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hawaiian MalasadaΔE00 0.929 · #96300d
- Salsa MexicanaΔE00 1.494 · #a03413
- Dragon DanceΔE00 1.544 · #9c3418
- Spill the BeansΔE00 2.028 · #9b351b
- Chocolate FondueΔE00 2.298 · #9a3001
- Brown RedΔE00 2.355 · #922b05
- Dark UmberΔE00 2.452 · #932904
- Burnt RedΔE00 2.749 · #9f2305
- Citrine BrownΔE00 2.818 · #933709
- Enfield BrownΔE00 2.826 · #a73211
- Bengala RedΔE00 2.845 · #8f2e14
- ChocoholicΔE00 2.926 · #993300
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.