Satin Chocolate
#773344
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#773344
RGB
119, 51, 68
OKLCh
41.9% 0.097 6.5°
CIELAB (D50)
31.4, 31.7, 4.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.1; on black, Lc -12.2. 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 22.2 and 27.8 and 40.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.97:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.97:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#773344
protanopia
#3f3f44 · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#4f4f42 · ΔE00 27.8
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 40.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Octopus at ΔE00 0.311: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red OctopusΔE00 0.311 · #773243
- Köfte BrownΔE00 1.045 · #773644
- RhododendronΔE00 1.757 · #7d2f45
- Cordova BurgundyΔE00 2.055 · #7c3744
- CatawbaΔE00 2.101 · #703642
- Velvet RoseΔE00 2.204 · #7e374c
- July RubyΔE00 2.255 · #773b4a
- Ripe RhubarbΔE00 2.268 · #7e3947
- CamelotΔE00 2.504 · #803a4b
- Anthracite RedΔE00 2.636 · #73293b
- Chestnut RedΔE00 2.654 · #6c333f
- Cabernet CravingΔE00 2.806 · #6d3445
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.