Red Elegance
#85464b
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#85464b
RGB
133, 70, 75
OKLCh
47.3% 0.086 15.9°
CIELAB (D50)
37.9, 27.9, 9.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.2; on black, Lc -17.8. 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 23.5 and 27.6 and 37.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.97:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#85464b
protanopia
#50504b · ΔE00 23.5
deuteranopia
#5e5e49 · ΔE00 27.6
tritanopia
#6b6b00 · ΔE00 37.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBolero at ΔE00 0.946: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BoleroΔE00 0.946 · #88464a
- Currant JamΔE00 1.418 · #884a50
- Rhubarb SmoothieΔE00 1.793 · #8c474b
- Dark StrawberryΔE00 1.847 · #80444c
- Desert CanyonΔE00 1.881 · #80474e
- Silk SatinΔE00 1.995 · #8b4248
- CordialΔE00 2.075 · #864c52
- CasandraΔE00 2.14 · #7c4549
- Ruby LipsΔE00 2.32 · #813e45
- CordovanΔE00 2.428 · #893f45
- Red Red WineΔE00 2.485 · #814142
- Winning RedΔE00 2.494 · #894144
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.