Red Robin
#7d4138
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7d4138
RGB
125, 65, 56
OKLCh
44.8% 0.085 29.7°
CIELAB (D50)
35.2, 25.8, 17.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.8; on black, Lc -15.3. 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 24.7 and 26.0 and 32.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.69:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7d4138
protanopia
#4b4b38 · ΔE00 24.7
deuteranopia
#585835 · ΔE00 26.0
tritanopia
#646400 · ΔE00 32.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Pepper at ΔE00 1.111: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Red PepperΔE00 1.111 · #7a3f38
- Spiced AppleΔE00 1.273 · #7f403a
- Country SleighΔE00 1.276 · #7e4337
- Monterey ChestnutΔE00 1.599 · #7d4235
- Raw CinnabarΔE00 1.611 · #7d403b
- BoleΔE00 1.619 · #79443b
- OutrageousΔE00 1.711 · #824438
- Aged TeakΔE00 1.761 · #7a4134
- DucalΔE00 1.8 · #763d35
- Sweet SpiceberryΔE00 1.869 · #7b453e
- Crown of ThornsΔE00 1.916 · #763c33
- 1975 Earth RedΔE00 1.926 · #7b463b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.