Minotaur Hide
#4a120d
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4a120d
RGB
74, 18, 13
OKLCh
27.8% 0.086 28.9°
CIELAB (D50)
15.4, 26.6, 18.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.4; 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 24.7 and 25.8 and 27.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.18:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.18:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4a120d
protanopia
#1e1e0e · ΔE00 24.7
deuteranopia
#2b2b09 · ΔE00 25.8
tritanopia
#363600 · ΔE00 27.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHull Red at ΔE00 1.535: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hull RedΔE00 1.535 · #4d140b
- BeanΔE00 1.615 · #4a1207
- Lonely ChocolateΔE00 2.179 · #4a0a00
- ErythrophobiaΔE00 2.503 · #4a0505
- Bulgarian RoseΔE00 2.533 · #480607
- Mama AfricaΔE00 2.631 · #551111
- English BreakfastΔE00 2.674 · #441111
- French PuceΔE00 2.724 · #4e1609
- Walnut BrownΔE00 2.747 · #4c0400
- Red BeanΔE00 2.991 · #3d0c02
- Earth BrownΔE00 3.012 · #4f1507
- Black ChocolateΔE00 3.028 · #441100
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.