Red Rumour
#693f43
A pink 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
#693f43
RGB
105, 63, 67
OKLCh
41.9% 0.059 13.7°
CIELAB (D50)
31.9, 19.2, 5.7
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 35% 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 89.9; on black, Lc -12.4. 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 18.6 and 22.4 and 32.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.78:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.39:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.78:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#693f43
protanopia
#454543 · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#4e4e42 · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#575700 · ΔE00 32.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isImperial Jewel at ΔE00 0.381: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Imperial JewelΔE00 0.381 · #693e42
- Purplish BrownΔE00 1.116 · #6b4247
- BeetrootΔE00 1.121 · #663f44
- Purple BrownΔE00 1.594 · #673a3f
- Vineyard WineΔE00 1.594 · #684047
- Smoked FlamingoΔE00 1.691 · #674244
- Royal GarnetΔE00 1.704 · #653a3d
- Jazzberry JamΔE00 1.797 · #674247
- FolkloreΔE00 1.865 · #684141
- Mecca RedΔE00 1.888 · #663f3f
- Kung FuΔE00 1.926 · #643b42
- Red MahoganyΔE00 2 · #663b43
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.