Grilled Tomato
#af3519
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#af3519
RGB
175, 53, 25
OKLCh
50.8% 0.163 34.0°
CIELAB (D50)
41.5, 49.3, 44.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.1; on black, Lc -21.7. 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 33.8 and 37.0 and 40.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.28:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.35:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.28:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#af3519
protanopia
#50501c · ΔE00 33.8
deuteranopia
#6c6c03 · ΔE00 37.0
tritanopia
#848400 · ΔE00 40.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChinese Night at ΔE00 1.214: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chinese NightΔE00 1.214 · #aa381e
- Chinese BrownΔE00 1.242 · #ab381f
- Crimson BlazeΔE00 1.51 · #ad3d1e
- Crimson SwordΔE00 1.541 · #b53111
- Azshara VeinΔE00 1.606 · #b13916
- Rusty RedΔE00 1.7 · #af2f0d
- Santa Belly RedΔE00 1.725 · #ad2c15
- ShakshukaΔE00 1.741 · #aa3311
- China RedΔE00 1.811 · #ad2b10
- Bricky BrickΔE00 1.848 · #b33a22
- SmoulderingΔE00 2.039 · #b6321e
- Red GravyΔE00 2.06 · #b83312
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.