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#701c11

A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.

Hex

#701c11

RGB

112, 28, 17

OKLCh

36.5% 0.119 30.8°

CIELAB (D50)

25.2, 36.8, 29.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.9; on black, Lc -7.7. 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 27.6 and 30.5 and 33.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

11.27:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.86:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at11.27:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#701c11

protanopia

#2f2f12 · ΔE00 27.6

deuteranopia

#434307 · ΔE00 30.5

tritanopia

#535300 · ΔE00 33.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlackened Sun at ΔE00 1.801: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.