Chocolate Chilli
#ab4231
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ab4231
RGB
171, 66, 49
OKLCh
52.0% 0.142 31.5°
CIELAB (D50)
43.0, 43.1, 33.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.8; on black, Lc -23.0. 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 30.9 and 34.5 and 40.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.91:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.56:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.91:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ab4231
protanopia
#565632 · ΔE00 30.9
deuteranopia
#6f6f2a · ΔE00 34.5
tritanopia
#838300 · ΔE00 40.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChipolata at ΔE00 0.491: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ChipolataΔE00 0.491 · #aa4433
- BarbarossaΔE00 1.251 · #a84734
- RambutanΔE00 1.362 · #a94737
- Rooibos TeaΔE00 1.693 · #ae3c29
- Medium CarmineΔE00 1.785 · #af4035
- Toasted PaprikaΔE00 2.014 · #a34631
- EdochaΔE00 2.494 · #a13d2d
- Cherry RaceΔE00 2.518 · #a64137
- Canyon WallΔE00 2.571 · #a14935
- Spiced UpΔE00 2.627 · #b14b38
- Red RevivalΔE00 2.699 · #a8453b
- Red TerraΔE00 2.704 · #ae4930
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.