Lonely Chocolate
#4a0a00
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4a0a00
RGB
74, 10, 0
OKLCh
26.7% 0.097 33.8°
CIELAB (D50)
14.1, 29.4, 21.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 101.8; 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 25.8 and 26.5 and 28.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.33:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4a0a00
protanopia
#1a1a01 · ΔE00 25.8
deuteranopia
#292900 · ΔE00 26.5
tritanopia
#353500 · ΔE00 28.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWalnut Brown at ΔE00 1.496: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Walnut BrownΔE00 1.496 · #4c0400
- BeanΔE00 1.593 · #4a1207
- Hull RedΔE00 1.92 · #4d140b
- BurnedΔE00 2.027 · #520b00
- Minotaur HideΔE00 2.179 · #4a120d
- Umbral UmberΔE00 2.355 · #520200
- Old MahoganyΔE00 2.387 · #4a0100
- ErythrophobiaΔE00 2.395 · #4a0505
- Dried BloodΔE00 2.48 · #4b0101
- Earth BrownΔE00 2.548 · #4f1507
- French PuceΔE00 2.59 · #4e1609
- Scorched BrownΔE00 2.61 · #4d0001
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.