Tabasco
#a02712
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a02712
RGB
160, 39, 18
OKLCh
46.6% 0.160 32.2°
CIELAB (D50)
36.6, 49.2, 43.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% 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 84.8; 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 33.3 and 36.6 and 39.7 — 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
#a02712
protanopia
#444415 · ΔE00 33.3
deuteranopia
#606000 · ΔE00 36.6
tritanopia
#777700 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBestial Red at ΔE00 1.827: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bestial RedΔE00 1.827 · #992211
- Evil CentipedeΔE00 1.905 · #aa2211
- RufousΔE00 1.982 · #a81c07
- Burnt RedΔE00 2.009 · #9f2305
- Sugo Della NonnaΔE00 2.068 · #a32e1d
- Dragon DanceΔE00 2.371 · #9c3418
- Totem PoleΔE00 2.433 · #991b07
- Salsa PicanteΔE00 2.462 · #ab250b
- Spill the BeansΔE00 2.484 · #9b351b
- Garden Gnome RedΔE00 2.61 · #9b2002
- Mechrite RedΔE00 2.627 · #a31713
- Orchestra of RedΔE00 2.732 · #ae230e
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.