Brick
#a03623
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a03623
RGB
160, 54, 35
OKLCh
48.4% 0.144 32.4°
CIELAB (D50)
38.8, 43.9, 36.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.9; on black, Lc -19.0. 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 31.2 and 34.6 and 38.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.89:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.05:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.89:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a03623
protanopia
#4c4c24 · ΔE00 31.2
deuteranopia
#656519 · ΔE00 34.6
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 38.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrownish Red at ΔE00 0.409: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brownish RedΔE00 0.409 · #9e3623
- JaipurΔE00 1.025 · #a43323
- Sugo Della NonnaΔE00 1.484 · #a32e1d
- Chocolate LustΔE00 1.69 · #993322
- EdochaΔE00 2.094 · #a13d2d
- Spill the BeansΔE00 2.202 · #9b351b
- Dragon DanceΔE00 2.659 · #9c3418
- Chinese NightΔE00 2.828 · #aa381e
- Chinese BrownΔE00 2.842 · #ab381f
- Red BirchΔE00 2.884 · #9d2b22
- Tomato SunriseΔE00 2.982 · #aa251b
- KetchupΔE00 3.068 · #9a382d
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.