Red Octopus
#773243
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#773243
RGB
119, 50, 67
OKLCh
41.7% 0.098 6.9°
CIELAB (D50)
31.2, 32.1, 5.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.3; on black, Lc -12.0. 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 22.4 and 28.0 and 40.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#773243
protanopia
#3f3f43 · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#4e4e41 · ΔE00 28.0
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 40.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSatin Chocolate at ΔE00 0.311: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Satin ChocolateΔE00 0.311 · #773344
- Köfte BrownΔE00 1.165 · #773644
- RhododendronΔE00 1.661 · #7d2f45
- Cordova BurgundyΔE00 2.056 · #7c3744
- CatawbaΔE00 2.209 · #703642
- Anthracite RedΔE00 2.352 · #73293b
- Ripe RhubarbΔE00 2.356 · #7e3947
- Velvet RoseΔE00 2.417 · #7e374c
- July RubyΔE00 2.548 · #773b4a
- CamelotΔE00 2.676 · #803a4b
- Chestnut RedΔE00 2.682 · #6c333f
- Cabernet CravingΔE00 2.979 · #6d3445
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.