Landjäger
#af403c
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#af403c
RGB
175, 64, 60
OKLCh
52.5% 0.146 25.5°
CIELAB (D50)
43.5, 45.9, 27.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.2; on black, Lc -23.6. 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 31.0 and 35.7 and 43.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.62:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#af403c
protanopia
#56563d · ΔE00 31.0
deuteranopia
#707036 · ΔE00 35.7
tritanopia
#868600 · ΔE00 43.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlitzy Red at ΔE00 0.576: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Glitzy RedΔE00 0.576 · #af413b
- Eye of NewtΔE00 0.774 · #ae3d3b
- Italian RedΔE00 0.846 · #b1403a
- Liquorice StickΔE00 1.242 · #b53e3d
- Rum PunchΔE00 1.34 · #aa423a
- Winter PoinsettiaΔE00 1.482 · #ae3c3d
- Crimson SilkΔE00 1.532 · #b5413b
- Scarlet TanagerΔE00 1.561 · #b43b3d
- IndiscreetΔE00 1.563 · #ac3b3b
- Cherry BombΔE00 1.913 · #b73d3f
- RedtailΔE00 1.923 · #af4544
- Red RevivalΔE00 2.002 · #a8453b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.