Sacramental Red
#5e0e0b
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#5e0e0b
RGB
94, 14, 11
OKLCh
31.4% 0.113 28.1°
CIELAB (D50)
19.3, 35.4, 25.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.0; 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 26.9 and 29.6 and 32.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.60:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.54:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.60:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5e0e0b
protanopia
#23230c · ΔE00 26.9
deuteranopia
#353503 · ΔE00 29.6
tritanopia
#444400 · ΔE00 32.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVampiric Council at ΔE00 0.902: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vampiric CouncilΔE00 0.902 · #5c0c0c
- Blood OrganΔE00 1.151 · #630f0f
- Vampire HunterΔE00 1.25 · #610507
- Blood of ZeusΔE00 1.696 · #640f09
- Mathematical RageΔE00 1.702 · #590a01
- Adana KebabıΔE00 1.779 · #661111
- Spikey RedΔE00 1.909 · #600000
- Blood GodΔE00 1.991 · #67080b
- Altar WineΔE00 2.336 · #5f1a10
- RosewoodΔE00 2.359 · #65000b
- CherrywoodΔE00 2.362 · #651a14
- Beastly RedΔE00 2.462 · #680c08
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.