Picante
#a04933
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a04933
RGB
160, 73, 51
OKLCh
51.3% 0.121 35.3°
CIELAB (D50)
42.5, 35.7, 31.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 79.5; on black, Lc -22.3. 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 28.0 and 30.5 and 35.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.50:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a04933
protanopia
#585834 · ΔE00 28.0
deuteranopia
#6c6c2d · ΔE00 30.5
tritanopia
#7e7e00 · ΔE00 35.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCanyon Wall at ΔE00 0.682: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Canyon WallΔE00 0.682 · #a14935
- Toasted PaprikaΔE00 0.993 · #a34631
- Burnt EarthΔE00 1.311 · #9d4531
- Rock SprayΔE00 1.54 · #9d442d
- Spicy HueΔE00 1.64 · #994b35
- Texas HeatwaveΔE00 1.738 · #a54e37
- Rodeo RedΔE00 1.863 · #a24b3a
- BarbarossaΔE00 1.931 · #a84734
- Redridge BrownΔE00 1.948 · #9d4e34
- Truffle TroubleΔE00 2.31 · #a35139
- Sun’s RageΔE00 2.39 · #a94e37
- Toasted CranberryΔE00 2.409 · #a24a3b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.