Cuba Libre
#73383c
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#73383c
RGB
115, 56, 60
OKLCh
41.8% 0.083 17.1°
CIELAB (D50)
31.6, 26.8, 10.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.0; on black, Lc -12.2. 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 23.4 and 27.2 and 35.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.36:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#73383c
protanopia
#42423c · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#4f4f3a · ΔE00 27.2
tritanopia
#5b5b00 · ΔE00 35.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQueen’s Rose at ΔE00 1.135: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Queen’s RoseΔE00 1.135 · #753a40
- Antique RosewoodΔE00 1.157 · #72393f
- Fruitful OrchardΔE00 1.163 · #773b3e
- Aged MerlotΔE00 1.183 · #73343a
- Griffon BrownΔE00 1.527 · #70393f
- Oxblood RedΔE00 1.536 · #71383f
- Red TheatreΔE00 1.644 · #6e3637
- Garnet EveningΔE00 1.7 · #763b42
- PortΔE00 1.762 · #6d3637
- Marrakesh RedΔE00 1.813 · #783b3c
- RubineΔE00 1.844 · #6c383c
- Rose Pink VillaΔE00 2.1 · #7c383e
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.