Red My Mind
#994341
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#994341
RGB
153, 67, 65
OKLCh
49.5% 0.116 23.6°
CIELAB (D50)
40.3, 36.6, 19.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.7; on black, Lc -20.2. 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 27.6 and 30.9 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.49:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.23:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.49:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#994341
protanopia
#535342 · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#66663d · ΔE00 30.9
tritanopia
#777700 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAttar of Rose at ΔE00 0.272: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Attar of RoseΔE00 0.272 · #994240
- Autumn RidgeΔE00 0.756 · #9b423f
- Spicy RedΔE00 0.819 · #97413e
- Sweet LycheeΔE00 0.865 · #9b4040
- Ashen BrownΔE00 0.893 · #994444
- LumberjackΔE00 1.068 · #9d4542
- Queen’s CoatΔE00 1.262 · #9d433f
- Mexican RedΔE00 1.466 · #9b3d3d
- Tandoori SpiceΔE00 1.603 · #9f4440
- SappanwoodΔE00 1.736 · #9e3d3f
- Burning BushΔE00 1.741 · #a0403e
- Rooster CombΔE00 1.749 · #96463f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.