Rustic Rouge
#9d2626
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9d2626
RGB
157, 38, 38
OKLCh
46.2% 0.155 25.7°
CIELAB (D50)
36.0, 49.0, 31.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 85.3; on black, Lc -16.7. 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 32.0 and 37.0 and 42.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9d2626
protanopia
#424227 · ΔE00 32.0
deuteranopia
#5e5e1d · ΔE00 37.0
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 42.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTamed Beast at ΔE00 0.21: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tamed BeastΔE00 0.21 · #9c2626
- Manchester NightsΔE00 1.173 · #992222
- Haute CoutureΔE00 1.339 · #a0252a
- Harissa RedΔE00 1.865 · #a52a2a
- Red VitalityΔE00 1.972 · #9f1a1d
- SaffronautΔE00 2 · #932a25
- Red BirchΔE00 2.168 · #9d2b22
- Vivid AuburnΔE00 2.17 · #922724
- Red-Hot MamaΔE00 2.455 · #a91f29
- Quite RedΔE00 2.486 · #97171e
- Ruby RedΔE00 2.487 · #9b111e
- Fresh AuburnΔE00 2.494 · #a52a24
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.