Intrigue Red
#b24648
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b24648
RGB
178, 70, 72
OKLCh
54.0% 0.141 22.0°
CIELAB (D50)
45.2, 44.9, 22.8
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 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.4; on black, Lc -25.3. 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 29.8 and 35.0 and 44.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.44:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.86:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.44:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b24648
protanopia
#5b5b49 · ΔE00 29.8
deuteranopia
#747443 · ΔE00 35.0
tritanopia
#898900 · ΔE00 44.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaked Apple at ΔE00 0.76: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Baked AppleΔE00 0.76 · #b34646
- RedtailΔE00 1.197 · #af4544
- Tainan BrickΔE00 1.279 · #b54a4a
- Winterberry FrostΔE00 1.451 · #b4474d
- EmpowerΔE00 1.626 · #b54644
- Chinese SafflowerΔE00 1.631 · #b94047
- Dragon’s BloodΔE00 1.654 · #b84048
- DaredevilΔE00 1.844 · #ab4343
- PomegranateΔE00 1.854 · #b53d45
- Lady in RedΔE00 1.933 · #b34b47
- Dusty RedΔE00 1.999 · #b9484e
- Pasadena RoseΔE00 2.102 · #a84a49
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.