Ketchup
#9a382d
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9a382d
RGB
154, 56, 45
OKLCh
47.8% 0.134 29.3°
CIELAB (D50)
38.2, 41.2, 29.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.6; on black, Lc -18.3. 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 29.7 and 33.3 and 38.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.98:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9a382d
protanopia
#4c4c2e · ΔE00 29.7
deuteranopia
#626227 · ΔE00 33.3
tritanopia
#757500 · ΔE00 38.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrown Labrador at ΔE00 0.659: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brown LabradorΔE00 0.659 · #97382c
- Red ChilliΔE00 1.148 · #95372d
- Barrel SpongeΔE00 1.29 · #9e3c31
- ThunderbirdΔE00 2.123 · #923830
- Rave RedΔE00 2.145 · #a13b34
- Red KiteΔE00 2.33 · #913228
- EdochaΔE00 2.332 · #a13d2d
- Bengara RedΔE00 2.518 · #913225
- Carmen MirandaΔE00 2.557 · #903e2f
- Chocolate LustΔE00 2.568 · #993322
- Gatsby BrickΔE00 2.597 · #8e3b2f
- Red BirchΔE00 2.632 · #9d2b22
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.