Cacao Nibs
#80442f
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#80442f
RGB
128, 68, 47
OKLCh
45.6% 0.089 39.8°
CIELAB (D50)
36.2, 24.9, 24.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.9; on black, Lc -16.2. 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 23.4 and 24.4 and 28.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#80442f
protanopia
#4e4e30 · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#5b5b2c · ΔE00 24.4
tritanopia
#676700 · ΔE00 28.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoppery Orange at ΔE00 0.777: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Coppery OrangeΔE00 0.777 · #7f4330
- Hammered CopperΔE00 1.408 · #834831
- Sunbathing BeautyΔE00 1.489 · #7e4730
- Stone Age QueenΔE00 1.784 · #7a3f2b
- Medium Tuscan RedΔE00 1.851 · #794431
- Deep Orange-Coloured BrownΔE00 1.962 · #864735
- Olive NiçoiseΔE00 2.014 · #88432e
- Burnished RussetΔE00 2.015 · #794029
- Old CuminΔE00 2.041 · #784430
- BrickhouseΔE00 2.108 · #864a36
- Sencha BrownΔE00 2.197 · #824b35
- Copper CanyonΔE00 2.244 · #77422c
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.