Obscure Ogre
#771908
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#771908
RGB
119, 25, 8
OKLCh
37.4% 0.131 32.4°
CIELAB (D50)
26.2, 40.2, 35.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.9; on black, Lc -8.6. 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 29.1 and 31.7 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.93:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#771908
protanopia
#30300a · ΔE00 29.1
deuteranopia
#464600 · ΔE00 31.7
tritanopia
#575700 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSang de Boeuf at ΔE00 1.189: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sang de BoeufΔE00 1.189 · #771100
- Notes of PlumΔE00 1.474 · #770f05
- Doombull BrownΔE00 1.63 · #7c1e08
- Tempered ChocolateΔE00 1.681 · #772211
- New Kenyan CopperΔE00 1.695 · #7c1c05
- Demonic PresenceΔE00 1.896 · #7c0a02
- Liquorice RedΔE00 2.054 · #740900
- Blackened SunΔE00 2.067 · #77150e
- Cedar Wood FinishΔE00 2.084 · #711a00
- Chaotic RedΔE00 2.365 · #740600
- Reddy BrownΔE00 2.514 · #6e1005
- PruneΔE00 2.559 · #701c11
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.