Eternal Flame
#a13f49
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a13f49
RGB
161, 63, 73
OKLCh
50.4% 0.130 17.0°
CIELAB (D50)
41.1, 42.0, 16.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.8; on black, Lc -21.1. 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 27.5 and 32.9 and 44.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.32:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a13f49
protanopia
#52524a · ΔE00 27.5
deuteranopia
#686845 · ΔE00 32.9
tritanopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 44.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCharleston Cherry at ΔE00 0.736: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Charleston CherryΔE00 0.736 · #9f414b
- Ode to JoyΔE00 0.965 · #9d404a
- FloriographyΔE00 1.044 · #a54049
- MoonroseΔE00 1.075 · #a53f48
- Timeless RubyΔE00 1.48 · #9a4149
- Reddest RedΔE00 1.712 · #9b4045
- Bright LadyΔE00 2.059 · #9f3645
- Pop of PoppyΔE00 2.092 · #a13741
- RompΔE00 2.155 · #983d48
- Egyptian RedΔE00 2.204 · #983f4a
- Classic CherryΔE00 2.213 · #974146
- Vintage RedΔE00 2.239 · #9e3641
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.