Kenyan Copper
#6c322e
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#6c322e
RGB
108, 50, 46
OKLCh
39.4% 0.084 25.6°
CIELAB (D50)
28.9, 26.1, 15.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.4; on black, Lc -10.0. 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 24.7 and 26.4 and 31.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.13:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6c322e
protanopia
#3c3c2e · ΔE00 24.7
deuteranopia
#49492c · ΔE00 26.4
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 31.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHenna Red at ΔE00 0.891: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Henna RedΔE00 0.891 · #6e3530
- Cherry MahoganyΔE00 0.951 · #6a332d
- Makore Veneer RedΔE00 1.099 · #6e2f2c
- Woody BrownΔE00 1.609 · #6e2d2b
- AuburnΔE00 1.645 · #712f2c
- Arcane RedΔE00 1.733 · #6a2f2f
- Dried PlumΔE00 2.006 · #683332
- Crabby AppleΔE00 2.061 · #753531
- GarnetΔE00 2.158 · #733635
- Cypress Bark RedΔE00 2.265 · #6f3028
- Sanguine BrownΔE00 2.37 · #6c3736
- Rookwood RedΔE00 2.582 · #622f2d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.