Toasted Paprika
#a34631
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a34631
RGB
163, 70, 49
OKLCh
51.3% 0.128 34.2°
CIELAB (D50)
42.3, 38.3, 32.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.6; on black, Lc -22.3. 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 29.0 and 31.9 and 37.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.48:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a34631
protanopia
#575732 · ΔE00 29.0
deuteranopia
#6c6c2b · ΔE00 31.9
tritanopia
#7f7f00 · ΔE00 37.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCanyon Wall at ΔE00 0.969: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Canyon WallΔE00 0.969 · #a14935
- PicanteΔE00 0.993 · #a04933
- BarbarossaΔE00 1.285 · #a84734
- Burnt EarthΔE00 1.339 · #9d4531
- Rock SprayΔE00 1.566 · #9d442d
- ChipolataΔE00 1.824 · #aa4433
- Chocolate ChilliΔE00 2.014 · #ab4231
- Rodeo RedΔE00 2.019 · #a24b3a
- RambutanΔE00 2.062 · #a94737
- Texas HeatwaveΔE00 2.157 · #a54e37
- EdochaΔE00 2.407 · #a13d2d
- Toasted CranberryΔE00 2.416 · #a24a3b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.