Polished Apple
#862a2e
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#862a2e
RGB
134, 42, 46
OKLCh
42.6% 0.126 21.8°
CIELAB (D50)
32.1, 40.0, 20.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.2; on black, Lc -13.0. 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 28.1 and 32.3 and 39.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.81:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.81:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#862a2e
protanopia
#3d3d2f · ΔE00 28.1
deuteranopia
#535329 · ΔE00 32.3
tritanopia
#656500 · ΔE00 39.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlame Red at ΔE00 0.549: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Flame RedΔE00 0.549 · #86282e
- Red DahliaΔE00 1.534 · #85222b
- Planet of the ApesΔE00 1.964 · #883333
- Old BrickΔE00 2.102 · #8a3335
- Sundried TomatoΔE00 2.366 · #7d252c
- Tall PoppyΔE00 2.405 · #853534
- Ancient RedΔE00 2.432 · #922a31
- Rio RedΔE00 2.498 · #92242e
- ShirazΔE00 2.54 · #842833
- Tuskgor FurΔE00 2.631 · #883636
- Deep Dairei RedΔE00 2.651 · #7c2229
- Dockside RedΔE00 2.696 · #813533
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.