Drip Coffee
#7a280a
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#7a280a
RGB
122, 40, 10
OKLCh
39.7% 0.121 38.1°
CIELAB (D50)
29.1, 35.4, 37.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 91.9; on black, Lc -10.5. 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 27.3 and 29.3 and 31.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.14:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7a280a
protanopia
#39390c · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#4c4c00 · ΔE00 29.3
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 31.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReddish Brown at ΔE00 1.316: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Reddish BrownΔE00 1.316 · #7f2b0a
- Buried LustΔE00 1.561 · #772200
- Shaku-Do CopperΔE00 1.807 · #752100
- Mahogany BrownΔE00 1.904 · #812308
- Burning SteppesΔE00 1.924 · #742100
- CaponataΔE00 1.986 · #822a10
- ChestnutΔE00 2.185 · #742802
- Doombull BrownΔE00 2.511 · #7c1e08
- Red Shade WashΔE00 2.517 · #862808
- New Kenyan CopperΔE00 2.629 · #7c1c05
- Centipede BrownΔE00 3.113 · #6d2400
- Beer Glazed BaconΔE00 3.17 · #773311
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.