Secret Scarlet
#7a0e0e
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#7a0e0e
RGB
122, 14, 14
OKLCh
37.2% 0.141 27.6°
CIELAB (D50)
25.8, 44.3, 32.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 30.2 and 34.2 and 36.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.90:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7a0e0e
protanopia
#2d2d10 · ΔE00 30.2
deuteranopia
#454500 · ΔE00 34.2
tritanopia
#585800 · ΔE00 36.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlood Pact at ΔE00 0.998: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blood PactΔE00 0.998 · #771111
- Blackened SunΔE00 1.131 · #77150e
- UP MaroonΔE00 1.182 · #7b1113
- Japanese MapleΔE00 1.203 · #780109
- DemonΔE00 1.284 · #7a0006
- Laura PotatoΔE00 1.596 · #800008
- Grubby RedΔE00 1.608 · #811412
- Red ReignΔE00 1.863 · #800707
- BloodΔE00 1.962 · #770001
- Notes of PlumΔE00 2.01 · #770f05
- Gochujang RedΔE00 2.112 · #770000
- Mythical WineΔE00 2.218 · #7a0a14
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.