Muddy
#a13905
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a13905
RGB
161, 57, 5
OKLCh
48.8% 0.148 40.7°
CIELAB (D50)
39.4, 42.5, 49.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 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 82.4; on black, Lc -19.5. 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 30.9 and 32.4 and 35.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.10:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a13905
protanopia
#4e4e09 · ΔE00 30.9
deuteranopia
#666600 · ΔE00 32.4
tritanopia
#7b7b00 · ΔE00 35.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRust at ΔE00 1.668: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- RustΔE00 1.668 · #a83c09
- Burnt SiennaΔE00 1.786 · #a93400
- ChocoholicΔE00 2.154 · #993300
- Chocolate FondueΔE00 2.53 · #9a3001
- Hot BrownΔE00 2.917 · #984218
- Citrine BrownΔE00 2.995 · #933709
- Donkey KongΔE00 3.035 · #ab4210
- Powdered CoffeeΔE00 3.085 · #a0450e
- All the Leaves Are BrownΔE00 3.227 · #994411
- Rusted LockΔE00 3.247 · #aa4411
- Salsa MexicanaΔE00 3.391 · #a03413
- Choco ChicΔE00 3.617 · #993311
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.