Saffronaut
#932a25
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#932a25
RGB
147, 42, 37
OKLCh
44.8% 0.141 27.2°
CIELAB (D50)
34.5, 44.3, 29.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.9; on black, Lc -15.2. 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 30.4 and 34.7 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.60:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#932a25
protanopia
#414126 · ΔE00 30.4
deuteranopia
#5a5a1d · ΔE00 34.7
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVivid Auburn at ΔE00 0.635: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vivid AuburnΔE00 0.635 · #922724
- BorschtΔE00 1.466 · #8c2c24
- Potion № 9ΔE00 1.492 · #8f3129
- Manchester NightsΔE00 1.536 · #992222
- Red KiteΔE00 1.629 · #913228
- Tamed BeastΔE00 1.833 · #9c2626
- Old MandarinΔE00 1.86 · #8e2323
- Classy RedΔE00 1.923 · #911f21
- Rustic RougeΔE00 2 · #9d2626
- Bengara RedΔE00 2.179 · #913225
- RedboxΔE00 2.32 · #94332f
- RipassoΔE00 2.379 · #94312f
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.