Black Chocolate
#441100
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#441100
RGB
68, 17, 0
OKLCh
26.3% 0.083 39.5°
CIELAB (D50)
13.8, 24.3, 21.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.2; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 23.9 and 23.9 and 24.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.33:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#441100
protanopia
#1c1c01 · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#282800 · ΔE00 23.9
tritanopia
#323200 · ΔE00 24.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBean at ΔE00 1.786: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BeanΔE00 1.786 · #4a1207
- Old StudyΔE00 1.975 · #431705
- French PuceΔE00 2.311 · #4e1609
- Hull RedΔE00 2.456 · #4d140b
- Earth BrownΔE00 2.511 · #4f1507
- Lonely ChocolateΔE00 2.673 · #4a0a00
- Barbecue SauceΔE00 2.907 · #471c0f
- Chocolate RushΔE00 2.911 · #4e1b0b
- Minotaur HideΔE00 3.028 · #4a120d
- Red BeanΔE00 3.106 · #3d0c02
- BurnedΔE00 3.816 · #520b00
- Bath in ChocolateΔE00 4.054 · #411900
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.