Spice Market
#b84823
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b84823
RGB
184, 72, 35
OKLCh
54.7% 0.153 37.9°
CIELAB (D50)
46.2, 44.8, 44.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 86% 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 75.3; on black, Lc -26.4. 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 32.4 and 35.0 and 38.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.99:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b84823
protanopia
#5e5e25 · ΔE00 32.4
deuteranopia
#787815 · ΔE00 35.0
tritanopia
#8e8e00 · ΔE00 38.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrange Wood at ΔE00 0.361: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Orange WoodΔE00 0.361 · #b74923
- Cattail RedΔE00 0.475 · #b64925
- Devil’s ButterflyΔE00 1.122 · #bb4422
- Cinnamon SunsetΔE00 1.8 · #b64c2d
- Shēn Chéng OrangeΔE00 2.369 · #c03f20
- Paprika KissesΔE00 2.551 · #c24325
- Gold FlameΔE00 2.6 · #b44f22
- Pindjur RedΔE00 2.721 · #bb4411
- Renga BrickΔE00 2.885 · #b55233
- Cinnamon StickΔE00 2.919 · #b05127
- Martian IroncrustΔE00 3.011 · #b7410e
- Rose of SharonΔE00 3.102 · #ac512d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.