Red Cent
#ad654c
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ad654c
RGB
173, 101, 76
OKLCh
58.2% 0.100 39.8°
CIELAB (D50)
50.8, 27.9, 27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.4; on black, Lc -31.2. 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 24.9 and 26.4 and 33.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.43:1 — large text only
Black text
4.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac644b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ad654c
protanopia
#70704d · ΔE00 24.9
deuteranopia
#808049 · ΔE00 26.4
tritanopia
#8e8e00 · ΔE00 33.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRusty Gate at ΔE00 1.356: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rusty GateΔE00 1.356 · #af6649
- BruschettaΔE00 1.42 · #b2654e
- Deep Clay RedΔE00 1.645 · #ae6a52
- Brown WoodΔE00 1.677 · #b4674d
- Soho RedΔE00 1.708 · #ab6953
- Georgia ClayΔE00 1.858 · #b06144
- Ruddy OakΔE00 1.931 · #a5654e
- Mojave SunsetΔE00 1.937 · #aa6a53
- Bear ClawΔE00 1.939 · #ae6b52
- Cedar Plank SalmonΔE00 2.109 · #a96a50
- Toffee GlazeΔE00 2.177 · #a5654a
- Deathclaw BrownΔE00 2.241 · #b36853
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.