Truffle Trouble
#a35139
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a35139
RGB
163, 81, 57
OKLCh
53.1% 0.115 37.1°
CIELAB (D50)
44.7, 33.2, 30.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.2; on black, Lc -24.5. 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 27.0 and 29.2 and 34.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.79:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a35139
protanopia
#5f5f3a · ΔE00 27.0
deuteranopia
#717134 · ΔE00 29.2
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 34.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTexas Heatwave at ΔE00 0.974: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Texas HeatwaveΔE00 0.974 · #a54e37
- Ancient CopperΔE00 1.428 · #9f543e
- Sun’s RageΔE00 1.552 · #a94e37
- Suzume BrownΔE00 1.604 · #aa4f37
- Redridge BrownΔE00 1.756 · #9d4e34
- Kalahari SunsetΔE00 1.845 · #9f5440
- Pico EarthΔE00 2.072 · #ab5236
- Orange RoughyΔE00 2.117 · #a85335
- Persimmon VarnishΔE00 2.254 · #9f563a
- Sōdenkaracha BrownΔE00 2.291 · #9b533f
- PicanteΔE00 2.31 · #a04933
- Canyon WallΔE00 2.443 · #a14935
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.