Mature Cognac
#9a463d
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9a463d
RGB
154, 70, 61
OKLCh
50.1% 0.114 28.1°
CIELAB (D50)
41.0, 35.3, 23.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.0; on black, Lc -20.9. 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 27.5 and 30.4 and 37.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.32:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9a463d
protanopia
#55553e · ΔE00 27.5
deuteranopia
#686839 · ΔE00 30.4
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 37.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMojo at ΔE00 0.705: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- MojoΔE00 0.705 · #97463c
- Chilli OilΔE00 0.707 · #9d453c
- Safflower KiteΔE00 0.805 · #9a493f
- Morocco RedΔE00 0.956 · #96453b
- Rooster CombΔE00 1.226 · #96463f
- Kite BrownΔE00 1.265 · #95483f
- Queen’s CoatΔE00 1.707 · #9d433f
- Tandoori SpiceΔE00 1.827 · #9f4440
- Rusty HeartΔE00 1.881 · #a04039
- Smokin HotΔE00 1.911 · #954a3d
- Autumn RidgeΔE00 2.03 · #9b423f
- Persimmon JuiceΔE00 2.03 · #934337
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.