Sugo Della Nonna
#a32e1d
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a32e1d
RGB
163, 46, 29
OKLCh
47.9% 0.156 31.3°
CIELAB (D50)
38.2, 48.0, 39.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.4; on black, Lc -18.6. 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 32.8 and 36.5 and 40.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.97:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a32e1d
protanopia
#48481f · ΔE00 32.8
deuteranopia
#64640f · ΔE00 36.5
tritanopia
#7a7a00 · ΔE00 40.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJaipur at ΔE00 1.199: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- JaipurΔE00 1.199 · #a43323
- BrickΔE00 1.484 · #a03623
- Brownish RedΔE00 1.638 · #9e3623
- Tomato SunriseΔE00 1.709 · #aa251b
- TabascoΔE00 2.068 · #a02712
- Joyous RedΔE00 2.148 · #ae2719
- Chocolate LustΔE00 2.173 · #993322
- Evil CentipedeΔE00 2.302 · #aa2211
- Red BirchΔE00 2.549 · #9d2b22
- Spill the BeansΔE00 2.55 · #9b351b
- Fresh AuburnΔE00 2.608 · #a52a24
- Santa Belly RedΔE00 2.655 · #ad2c15
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.