Shin Godzilla
#9a373f
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9a373f
RGB
154, 55, 63
OKLCh
48.0% 0.132 18.9°
CIELAB (D50)
38.3, 42.5, 18.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.5; on black, Lc -18.4. 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 33.4 and 43.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.99:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9a373f
protanopia
#4b4b40 · ΔE00 28.1
deuteranopia
#62623b · ΔE00 33.4
tritanopia
#757500 · ΔE00 43.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVintage Red at ΔE00 0.978: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vintage RedΔE00 0.978 · #9e3641
- High DramaΔE00 1.261 · #9a3843
- Queen of HeartsΔE00 1.27 · #98333a
- Pop of PoppyΔE00 1.429 · #a13741
- Romantic NightΔE00 1.438 · #96353a
- Polished GarnetΔE00 1.475 · #953640
- Pomegranate SeedsΔE00 1.7 · #95313a
- Wine & RosesΔE00 1.792 · #a33540
- Fire ChiΔE00 1.891 · #92353a
- Reddest RedΔE00 2.032 · #9b4045
- Bright LadyΔE00 2.117 · #9f3645
- Ruby RingΔE00 2.158 · #a03d41
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.