Veil of Cinder
#784f50
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#784f50
RGB
120, 79, 80
OKLCh
47.3% 0.056 17.8°
CIELAB (D50)
38.3, 17.9, 6.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.8; on black, Lc -18.1. 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 18.7 and 21.9 and 32.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#784f50
protanopia
#555550 · ΔE00 18.7
deuteranopia
#5d5d4f · ΔE00 21.9
tritanopia
#666600 · ΔE00 32.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFalse Morel at ΔE00 1.257: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- False MorelΔE00 1.257 · #784d4c
- Antique RedΔE00 1.495 · #7d4f51
- MadderΔE00 1.621 · #754c50
- Deep RhubarbΔE00 1.859 · #7f5153
- Sheringa RoseΔE00 2.286 · #735153
- Cranberry RedΔE00 2.419 · #7e5350
- PlumberryΔE00 2.432 · #735054
- LampoonΔE00 2.452 · #805557
- Rule BreakerΔE00 2.584 · #774e55
- CocoboloΔE00 2.746 · #784848
- MarronΔE00 2.861 · #6e4c4b
- Tibetan TempleΔE00 2.951 · #814d50
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.