Lumberjack
#9d4542
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9d4542
RGB
157, 69, 66
OKLCh
50.5% 0.118 24.2°
CIELAB (D50)
41.4, 37.3, 20.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.6; on black, Lc -21.3. 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 27.9 and 31.3 and 40.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.24:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.36:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.24:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9d4542
protanopia
#555543 · ΔE00 27.9
deuteranopia
#69693e · ΔE00 31.3
tritanopia
#7b7b00 · ΔE00 40.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTandoori Spice at ΔE00 0.738: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tandoori SpiceΔE00 0.738 · #9f4440
- Queen’s CoatΔE00 0.757 · #9d433f
- Autumn RidgeΔE00 0.901 · #9b423f
- Red My MindΔE00 1.068 · #994341
- Roof TerracottaΔE00 1.072 · #a14743
- Attar of RoseΔE00 1.183 · #994240
- Burning BushΔE00 1.349 · #a0403e
- Sweet LycheeΔE00 1.461 · #9b4040
- Ashen BrownΔE00 1.514 · #994444
- Spicy RedΔE00 1.65 · #97413e
- Tomato SlicesΔE00 1.763 · #a2423d
- No More DramaΔE00 1.817 · #a33f40
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.