Spill the Beans
#9b351b
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9b351b
RGB
155, 53, 27
OKLCh
47.3% 0.141 35.1°
CIELAB (D50)
37.7, 42.3, 39.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.1; on black, Lc -17.9. 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 30.7 and 33.6 and 36.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.19:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.92:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.19:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9b351b
protanopia
#4a4a1d · ΔE00 30.7
deuteranopia
#62620e · ΔE00 33.6
tritanopia
#767600 · ΔE00 36.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDragon Dance at ΔE00 0.609: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dragon DanceΔE00 0.609 · #9c3418
- Salsa MexicanaΔE00 1.936 · #a03413
- Choco ChicΔE00 2.028 · #993311
- Brownish RedΔE00 2.068 · #9e3623
- BrickΔE00 2.202 · #a03623
- Chocolate LustΔE00 2.463 · #993322
- TabascoΔE00 2.484 · #a02712
- Sugo Della NonnaΔE00 2.55 · #a32e1d
- Hawaiian MalasadaΔE00 2.653 · #96300d
- Enfield BrownΔE00 2.92 · #a73211
- Bengala RedΔE00 2.949 · #8f2e14
- JaipurΔE00 3.032 · #a43323
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.