Sly Fox
#804741
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
#804741
RGB
128, 71, 65
OKLCh
46.5% 0.079 26.9°
CIELAB (D50)
37.2, 24.4, 14.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.9; on black, Lc -17.1. 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 24.2 and 25.9 and 32.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.90:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#804741
protanopia
#505041 · ΔE00 24.2
deuteranopia
#5c5c3f · ΔE00 25.9
tritanopia
#686800 · ΔE00 32.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeco Red at ΔE00 0.766: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deco RedΔE00 0.766 · #824942
- Think BrickΔE00 0.836 · #834841
- Sweet SpiceberryΔE00 1.287 · #7b453e
- Shakker RedΔE00 1.568 · #7f4340
- HennaΔE00 1.662 · #864941
- Spiced BerryΔE00 1.701 · #85443f
- Terra CoveΔE00 1.739 · #844c47
- PartridgeΔE00 1.747 · #844c44
- Richardson BrickΔE00 1.818 · #854c47
- Raw CinnabarΔE00 2.086 · #7d403b
- Texas Sweet TeaΔE00 2.09 · #794840
- SavannaΔE00 2.109 · #874c44
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.