Liquorice Red
#740900
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#740900
RGB
116, 9, 0
OKLCh
35.6% 0.139 30.8°
CIELAB (D50)
23.9, 43.4, 36.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.2; on black, Lc -7.5. 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 30.3 and 32.6 and 35.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.78:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#740900
protanopia
#292902 · ΔE00 30.3
deuteranopia
#414100 · ΔE00 32.6
tritanopia
#535300 · ΔE00 35.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChaotic Red at ΔE00 0.379: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chaotic RedΔE00 0.379 · #740600
- Notes of PlumΔE00 0.9 · #770f05
- Gochujang RedΔE00 1.067 · #770000
- BloodΔE00 1.195 · #770001
- Sang de BoeufΔE00 1.456 · #771100
- Reddy BrownΔE00 1.509 · #6e1005
- HellboundΔE00 1.564 · #710101
- Demonic PresenceΔE00 1.619 · #7c0a02
- DemonΔE00 2.047 · #7a0006
- Obscure OgreΔE00 2.054 · #771908
- Chestnut BrownΔE00 2.08 · #6d1008
- Blackened SunΔE00 2.113 · #77150e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.