Wild Thing
#654243
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
#654243
RGB
101, 66, 67
OKLCh
41.9% 0.049 17.5°
CIELAB (D50)
32.1, 15.7, 5.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 29% 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 89.7; on black, Lc -12.5. 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 17.1 and 19.9 and 29.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.41:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#654243
protanopia
#474743 · ΔE00 17.1
deuteranopia
#4e4e42 · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 29.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFederation Brown at ΔE00 0.669: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Federation BrownΔE00 0.669 · #634041
- Smoked FlamingoΔE00 0.765 · #674244
- TwinberryΔE00 0.817 · #684344
- FolkloreΔE00 1.409 · #684141
- Mecca RedΔE00 1.579 · #663f3f
- Night BloomΔE00 1.681 · #613e3d
- Wine BrownΔE00 1.707 · #5f3e3e
- Cuba BrownΔE00 1.755 · #623d3d
- Jazzberry JamΔE00 1.842 · #674247
- Shaded FuchsiaΔE00 1.875 · #664348
- Cajun BrownΔE00 1.878 · #5f3e41
- Fruit YardΔE00 1.951 · #604241
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.