Kabuki
#a73a3e
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a73a3e
RGB
167, 58, 62
OKLCh
50.5% 0.143 21.8°
CIELAB (D50)
41.1, 45.7, 23.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.6; on black, Lc -21.2. 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 29.9 and 35.3 and 44.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.32:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a73a3e
protanopia
#50503f · ΔE00 29.9
deuteranopia
#6a6a39 · ΔE00 35.3
tritanopia
#7f7f00 · ΔE00 44.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCalifornia Poppy at ΔE00 0.509: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- California PoppyΔE00 0.509 · #a83c3f
- Scarlet PastΔE00 0.577 · #a53b3d
- JulesΔE00 0.897 · #a73940
- Red GumballΔE00 1.075 · #ac3a3e
- No More DramaΔE00 1.194 · #a33f40
- Bijou RedΔE00 1.67 · #a33d3b
- Ruby RingΔE00 1.714 · #a03d41
- SappanwoodΔE00 1.861 · #9e3d3f
- IndiscreetΔE00 1.874 · #ac3b3b
- Hibiscus RedΔE00 1.883 · #a33737
- Burning BushΔE00 1.933 · #a0403e
- Planet FeverΔE00 1.946 · #af313a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.