Worcestershire Sauce
#572b26
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
#572b26
RGB
87, 43, 38
OKLCh
34.6% 0.066 27.7°
CIELAB (D50)
23.6, 20.3, 12.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.8; 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 22.0 and 23.9 and 27.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.81:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.78:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.81:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#572b26
protanopia
#323226 · ΔE00 22.0
deuteranopia
#3c3c24 · ΔE00 23.9
tritanopia
#454500 · ΔE00 27.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBratwurst at ΔE00 1.485: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BratwurstΔE00 1.485 · #582f2b
- Bitter ChocolateΔE00 2.114 · #4f2923
- Caput MortuumΔE00 2.135 · #592720
- Momoshio BrownΔE00 2.245 · #542d24
- Torrefacto RoastΔE00 2.484 · #4e241e
- Ebicha BrownΔE00 2.488 · #5e2824
- RedwoodΔE00 2.8 · #5b342e
- Rookwood RedΔE00 2.892 · #622f2d
- Christmas BrownΔE00 2.93 · #5d2b2c
- Rampant RhubarbΔE00 3.171 · #603231
- Library RedΔE00 3.205 · #5b3530
- Tobi BrownΔE00 3.231 · #4c221b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.