Death by Chocolate
#60443f
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#60443f
RGB
96, 68, 63
OKLCh
41.6% 0.040 30.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.9, 11.9, 8.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 90.0; on black, Lc -12.3. 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 15.6 and 17.3 and 25.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.76:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.40:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.76:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#60443f
protanopia
#48483f · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#4d4d3e · ΔE00 17.3
tritanopia
#535300 · ΔE00 25.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Mahogany at ΔE00 1.156: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep MahoganyΔE00 1.156 · #634743
- Chicory RootΔE00 1.205 · #5f423f
- Gorthor BrownΔE00 1.423 · #654741
- Warm Air of DebonairΔE00 1.616 · #654740
- Spiced WineΔE00 1.999 · #664942
- Shaved ChocolateΔE00 2.034 · #5a4039
- LiverΔE00 2.088 · #654a46
- Fruit YardΔE00 2.154 · #604241
- Outer BoundaryΔE00 2.158 · #654846
- Rocky RoadΔE00 2.187 · #64453c
- EmbarcaderoΔE00 2.19 · #5d4643
- Wild ManzanitaΔE00 2.217 · #684944
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.