Wine Cellar

#70403d

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

#70403d

RGB

112, 64, 61

OKLCh

42.9% 0.068 24.1°

CIELAB (D50)

33.1, 21.1, 11.3

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 only 39% 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 88.9; on black, Lc -13.3. 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 22.1 and 24.6 and 31.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

8.43:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.49:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at8.43:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#70403d

protanopia

#47473d · ΔE00 22.1

deuteranopia

#52523b · ΔE00 24.6

tritanopia

#5c5c00 · ΔE00 31.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Pines at ΔE00 0.668: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Red PinesΔE00 0.668 · #72423f
  • PoisonberryΔE00 0.873 · #73403e
  • Roast CoffeeΔE00 1.243 · #704341
  • Old CoffeeΔE00 1.246 · #704241
  • Burgundy WineΔE00 1.277 · #6c403e
  • Tuscan RussetΔE00 1.328 · #723d3b
  • Single OriginΔE00 1.339 · #713e39
  • ChiantiΔE00 1.4 · #734342
  • Murray RedΔE00 1.44 · #6b3c39
  • CimarronΔE00 1.594 · #6b3d38
  • Victoria RedΔE00 1.646 · #6a3c3a
  • Sequoia RedwoodΔE00 1.746 · #763f3d

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