Blood Brother
#770011
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#770011
RGB
119, 0, 17
OKLCh
35.9% 0.145 24.0°
CIELAB (D50)
24.1, 46.2, 29.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 94.6; on black, Lc -8.0. 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 30.1 and 35.1 and 38.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#770011
protanopia
#272713 · ΔE00 30.1
deuteranopia
#424205 · ΔE00 35.1
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 38.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMythical Wine at ΔE00 1.084: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mythical WineΔE00 1.084 · #7a0a14
- BaroloΔE00 1.214 · #71000e
- CinnabarΔE00 1.269 · #730113
- Festive BordeauxΔE00 2.103 · #6e0f12
- UP MaroonΔE00 2.12 · #7b1113
- Blood PactΔE00 2.123 · #771111
- Japanese MapleΔE00 2.228 · #780109
- Coffee BrickΔE00 2.299 · #6f0c0d
- Port WineΔE00 2.382 · #6e0c0d
- ArterialΔE00 2.422 · #711518
- Sneaky DevilΔE00 2.583 · #840014
- Secret ScarletΔE00 2.687 · #7a0e0e
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.