Hot Chocolate
#683939
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
#683939
RGB
104, 57, 57
OKLCh
40.3% 0.067 20.4°
CIELAB (D50)
30.1, 21.3, 9.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.5; on black, Lc -10.9. 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 21.5 and 24.6 and 31.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.23:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#683939
protanopia
#404039 · ΔE00 21.5
deuteranopia
#4b4b37 · ΔE00 24.6
tritanopia
#545400 · ΔE00 31.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlum Sauce at ΔE00 0.561: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Plum SauceΔE00 0.561 · #6a3939
- Forest Fruit PinkΔE00 0.895 · #68393b
- Rum RaisinΔE00 0.94 · #683b3c
- Covered BridgeΔE00 0.965 · #6a3c3b
- Earthly PleasuresΔE00 0.98 · #693c3b
- Bogong MothΔE00 1.134 · #663b3a
- Victoria RedΔE00 1.185 · #6a3c3a
- AndorraΔE00 1.234 · #633737
- BewitchedΔE00 1.326 · #6a393c
- Murray RedΔE00 1.581 · #6b3c39
- Sanguine BrownΔE00 1.716 · #6c3736
- Autumn Leaf RedΔE00 1.731 · #623836
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.