Haute Couture
#a0252a
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a0252a
RGB
160, 37, 42
OKLCh
46.7% 0.159 24.0°
CIELAB (D50)
36.5, 50.4, 29.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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 32.0 and 37.7 and 43.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.52:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a0252a
protanopia
#43432b · ΔE00 32.0
deuteranopia
#606022 · ΔE00 37.7
tritanopia
#767600 · ΔE00 43.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRustic Rouge at ΔE00 1.339: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rustic RougeΔE00 1.339 · #9d2626
- Tamed BeastΔE00 1.378 · #9c2626
- Red BrownΔE00 1.498 · #a52a2f
- Red-Hot MamaΔE00 1.707 · #a91f29
- Harissa RedΔE00 1.762 · #a52a2a
- Dorset NagaΔE00 1.817 · #9d2c31
- Haute RedΔE00 2.016 · #aa1829
- Drive-In CherryΔE00 2.072 · #a62e30
- SambaΔE00 2.118 · #aa262b
- Red SquareΔE00 2.215 · #aa262a
- Manchester NightsΔE00 2.261 · #992222
- Milano RedΔE00 2.276 · #9e3332
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.