Chocolate Lust
#993322
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#993322
RGB
153, 51, 34
OKLCh
46.8% 0.140 31.9°
CIELAB (D50)
37.0, 42.6, 34.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.7; on black, Lc -17.3. 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 30.5 and 33.9 and 38.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#993322
protanopia
#484823 · ΔE00 30.5
deuteranopia
#606019 · ΔE00 33.9
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 38.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrownish Red at ΔE00 1.325: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Brownish RedΔE00 1.325 · #9e3623
- BrickΔE00 1.69 · #a03623
- Red BirchΔE00 2.057 · #9d2b22
- Bengara RedΔE00 2.153 · #913225
- Sugo Della NonnaΔE00 2.173 · #a32e1d
- JaipurΔE00 2.228 · #a43323
- Brown LabradorΔE00 2.355 · #97382c
- Spill the BeansΔE00 2.463 · #9b351b
- KetchupΔE00 2.568 · #9a382d
- Red PrairieΔE00 2.667 · #8e3928
- Red KiteΔE00 2.889 · #913228
- Red ChilliΔE00 2.953 · #95372d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.