Grand Canyon
#a05d4d
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a05d4d
RGB
160, 93, 77
OKLCh
55.1% 0.092 34.3°
CIELAB (D50)
47.1, 26.8, 21.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.6; on black, Lc -27.1. 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 24.9 and 26.1 and 33.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.17:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a05d4d
protanopia
#67674d · ΔE00 24.9
deuteranopia
#76764a · ΔE00 26.1
tritanopia
#848400 · ΔE00 33.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChutney at ΔE00 0.43: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ChutneyΔE00 0.43 · #9f5e4e
- Remington RustΔE00 0.581 · #a25d4c
- Cajun RedΔE00 1.384 · #a45a4a
- Spicy CayenneΔE00 1.916 · #9b5b4f
- Copper BrownΔE00 1.938 · #9a6051
- Red PotatoΔE00 1.996 · #995d50
- Santa Fe SunsetΔE00 2.041 · #a75a4c
- Roycroft AdobeΔE00 2.197 · #a76251
- Deer TracksΔE00 2.212 · #a1614c
- SierraΔE00 2.255 · #a35c46
- VolcanicΔE00 2.319 · #a55749
- Rust ColouredΔE00 2.39 · #a46454
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.