Chocolate Explosion
#8e473b
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8e473b
RGB
142, 71, 59
OKLCh
48.4% 0.099 31.0°
CIELAB (D50)
39.2, 29.9, 21.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.9; on black, Lc -19.1. 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 25.9 and 27.6 and 34.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.11:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8e473b
protanopia
#53533c · ΔE00 25.9
deuteranopia
#636338 · ΔE00 27.6
tritanopia
#717100 · ΔE00 34.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlower Pot at ΔE00 0.923: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Flower PotΔE00 0.923 · #8f4438
- Deep Terra CottaΔE00 0.927 · #8b483d
- Cedar StaffΔE00 0.942 · #91493e
- Chocolate CherryΔE00 1.155 · #8a4438
- Red HawkΔE00 1.228 · #8a453b
- Red ClayΔE00 1.515 · #8f4b41
- Remember Me RedΔE00 1.555 · #8a4536
- Persimmon JuiceΔE00 1.679 · #934337
- Smokin HotΔE00 1.728 · #954a3d
- Kite BrownΔE00 1.882 · #95483f
- Allspice BerryΔE00 1.899 · #8e443d
- Suzumecha BrownΔE00 1.908 · #8c4736
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.