Wine and Unwind
#772c30
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#772c30
RGB
119, 44, 48
OKLCh
40.3% 0.105 20.0°
CIELAB (D50)
29.6, 33.7, 15.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.6; on black, Lc -10.8. 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 26.3 and 29.5 and 36.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.60:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.19:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.60:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#772c30
protanopia
#3b3b31 · ΔE00 26.3
deuteranopia
#4c4c2d · ΔE00 29.5
tritanopia
#5b5b00 · ΔE00 36.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTamarillo at ΔE00 0.465: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TamarilloΔE00 0.465 · #752b2f
- Chocolate Bhut JolokiaΔE00 0.673 · #782a2e
- SyrahΔE00 1.482 · #792e35
- Fired BrickΔE00 1.553 · #793030
- Chocolate BarΔE00 1.851 · #773333
- Sundried TomatoΔE00 2.092 · #7d252c
- Strong EnvyΔE00 2.26 · #782e2c
- Scarlet ShadeΔE00 2.27 · #7e2530
- PaprikaΔE00 2.349 · #7c2d37
- Biking RedΔE00 2.358 · #7b222a
- Wild CurrantΔE00 2.401 · #7c3239
- Spring Lobster BrownΔE00 2.516 · #6c2c2f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.