Tamed Beast
#9c2626
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9c2626
RGB
156, 38, 38
OKLCh
46.0% 0.154 25.7°
CIELAB (D50)
35.8, 48.7, 31.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.5; on black, Lc -16.5. 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 31.8 and 36.9 and 42.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.72:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9c2626
protanopia
#424227 · ΔE00 31.8
deuteranopia
#5e5e1d · ΔE00 36.9
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 42.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRustic Rouge at ΔE00 0.21: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rustic RougeΔE00 0.21 · #9d2626
- Manchester NightsΔE00 1.048 · #992222
- Haute CoutureΔE00 1.378 · #a0252a
- SaffronautΔE00 1.833 · #932a25
- Vivid AuburnΔE00 1.976 · #922724
- Red VitalityΔE00 2.026 · #9f1a1d
- Harissa RedΔE00 2.051 · #a52a2a
- Red BirchΔE00 2.253 · #9d2b22
- Quite RedΔE00 2.364 · #97171e
- Ruby RedΔE00 2.413 · #9b111e
- EstrorubyΔE00 2.503 · #9b101f
- Red-Hot MamaΔE00 2.606 · #a91f29
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.