Monkey Island
#553b39
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#553b39
RGB
85, 59, 57
OKLCh
38.1% 0.037 23.9°
CIELAB (D50)
27.9, 11.6, 6.0
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 only 24% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.5; on black, Lc -9.0. 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 14.5 and 16.4 and 25.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.14:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.07:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.14:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#553b39
protanopia
#3f3f39 · ΔE00 14.5
deuteranopia
#444438 · ΔE00 16.4
tritanopia
#494900 · ΔE00 25.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoyal Maroon at ΔE00 0.848: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Royal MaroonΔE00 0.848 · #543938
- Van CleefΔE00 0.995 · #523936
- Deep DungeonΔE00 1.088 · #553d3a
- Warm PortΔE00 1.218 · #513938
- Divine WineΔE00 1.454 · #583e3e
- Smoked ClaretΔE00 1.583 · #583a39
- DroëworsΔE00 1.764 · #523839
- Cocoa BeanΔE00 1.797 · #4f3835
- Blood MahoganyΔE00 1.829 · #543839
- Budapest BrownΔE00 1.843 · #553d3e
- Intergalactic RayΔE00 1.873 · #573935
- Charred ChocolateΔE00 2.014 · #553b3d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.