Chocoholic
#993300
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#993300
RGB
153, 51, 0
OKLCh
46.6% 0.145 40.2°
CIELAB (D50)
36.9, 42.1, 49.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 84.8; on black, Lc -17.2. 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 30.6 and 31.8 and 34.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#993300
protanopia
#484804 · ΔE00 30.6
deuteranopia
#606000 · ΔE00 31.8
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 34.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Fondue at ΔE00 0.941: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate FondueΔE00 0.941 · #9a3001
- Citrine BrownΔE00 1.561 · #933709
- MuddyΔE00 2.154 · #a13905
- Hawaiian MalasadaΔE00 2.825 · #96300d
- Choco ChicΔE00 2.926 · #993311
- Brown RedΔE00 3.031 · #922b05
- Dark UmberΔE00 3.251 · #932904
- Burnt SiennaΔE00 3.308 · #a93400
- Salsa MexicanaΔE00 3.558 · #a03413
- Hot BrownΔE00 3.574 · #984218
- Coffee AddictionΔE00 3.626 · #883300
- Red Tone InkΔE00 3.652 · #8b2e08
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.