Sappanwood
#9e3d3f
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9e3d3f
RGB
158, 61, 63
OKLCh
49.4% 0.130 21.9°
CIELAB (D50)
40.0, 41.2, 20.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.9; on black, Lc -20.0. 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 28.6 and 33.1 and 42.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9e3d3f
protanopia
#505040 · ΔE00 28.6
deuteranopia
#66663b · ΔE00 33.1
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 42.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRuby Ring at ΔE00 0.706: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ruby RingΔE00 0.706 · #a03d41
- Mexican RedΔE00 0.81 · #9b3d3d
- Sweet LycheeΔE00 0.888 · #9b4040
- No More DramaΔE00 1.254 · #a33f40
- Burning BushΔE00 1.437 · #a0403e
- Attar of RoseΔE00 1.588 · #994240
- Scarlet PastΔE00 1.605 · #a53b3d
- Autumn RidgeΔE00 1.621 · #9b423f
- Red My MindΔE00 1.736 · #994341
- KabukiΔE00 1.861 · #a73a3e
- Spicy RedΔE00 1.901 · #97413e
- Reddest RedΔE00 1.918 · #9b4045
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.