Forbidden Passion
#661020
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#661020
RGB
102, 16, 32
OKLCh
33.6% 0.118 16.8°
CIELAB (D50)
21.6, 38.1, 15.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 97.4; 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 26.2 and 31.0 and 37.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.66:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#661020
protanopia
#262621 · ΔE00 26.2
deuteranopia
#3a3a1c · ΔE00 31.0
tritanopia
#4a4a00 · ΔE00 37.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Humour at ΔE00 0.711: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dark HumourΔE00 0.711 · #661122
- PohutukawaΔE00 2.134 · #651c26
- ClaretΔE00 2.536 · #680018
- Velvet OutbreakΔE00 2.644 · #6b1b2a
- MerguezΔE00 2.807 · #650021
- Chocolate CosmosΔE00 3.045 · #58111a
- Red BerryΔE00 3.183 · #701f28
- Cherry PickingΔE00 3.522 · #620b15
- Spinel RedΔE00 3.53 · #59181c
- Evil ForcesΔE00 3.562 · #770022
- BloedworstΔE00 3.79 · #560319
- Heavy HeartΔE00 3.795 · #771122
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.