Roasted Pepper
#890a01
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#890a01
RGB
137, 10, 1
OKLCh
40.0% 0.158 30.2°
CIELAB (D50)
28.9, 49.3, 42.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.1; on black, Lc -11.3. 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 32.8 and 35.3 and 38.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.11:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#890a01
protanopia
#313104 · ΔE00 32.8
deuteranopia
#4e4e00 · ΔE00 35.3
tritanopia
#636300 · ΔE00 38.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScab Red at ΔE00 0.747: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Scab RedΔE00 0.747 · #8b0000
- Sangoire RedΔE00 0.893 · #881100
- Blood OmenΔE00 0.914 · #8a0303
- Glass BullΔE00 0.914 · #880000
- Indian RedΔE00 0.918 · #850e04
- ChanticleerΔE00 1.049 · #870000
- Red LeeverΔE00 1.306 · #881400
- Sacrifice AltarΔE00 1.403 · #850101
- Proton RedΔE00 1.439 · #840804
- Scoville HighnessΔE00 1.54 · #900405
- Dark RedΔE00 1.555 · #840000
- Brick RedΔE00 1.819 · #8f1402
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.