Burnt Red
#9f2305
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9f2305
RGB
159, 35, 5
OKLCh
46.0% 0.164 33.4°
CIELAB (D50)
35.8, 50.1, 47.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% 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 85.3; on black, Lc -16.7. 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 33.7 and 35.9 and 39.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.73:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.72:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.73:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9f2305
protanopia
#424209 · ΔE00 33.7
deuteranopia
#5f5f00 · ΔE00 35.9
tritanopia
#767600 · ΔE00 39.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGarden Gnome Red at ΔE00 0.997: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Garden Gnome RedΔE00 0.997 · #9b2002
- Smoking RedΔE00 1.471 · #992200
- RufousΔE00 1.974 · #a81c07
- TabascoΔE00 2.009 · #a02712
- Kid IcarusΔE00 2.177 · #a81000
- Totem PoleΔE00 2.195 · #991b07
- Natural LeatherΔE00 2.278 · #a80e00
- SaveloyΔE00 2.303 · #aa2200
- Cave PaintingΔE00 2.344 · #aa1100
- Gory RedΔE00 2.486 · #a30800
- Rust RedΔE00 2.499 · #aa2704
- Salsa PicanteΔE00 2.579 · #ab250b
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.