Cheek Red
#a55a55
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a55a55
RGB
165, 90, 85
OKLCh
55.4% 0.099 24.8°
CIELAB (D50)
47.3, 31.0, 17.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.3; on black, Lc -27.4. 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 26.4 and 28.6 and 38.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a55a55
protanopia
#666655 · ΔE00 26.4
deuteranopia
#767652 · ΔE00 28.6
tritanopia
#868600 · ΔE00 38.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTuscan Clay at ΔE00 1.728: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tuscan ClayΔE00 1.728 · #aa5e5a
- EscalanteΔE00 2.025 · #a95f5c
- Bretzel BrownΔE00 2.174 · #aa5555
- Lingonberry PunchΔE00 2.262 · #a95657
- WalleyeΔE00 2.312 · #9b5953
- Rhode Island RedΔE00 2.366 · #9b5b55
- Savannah RedΔE00 2.377 · #a36159
- The Ego Has LandedΔE00 2.432 · #a75455
- FoxyΔE00 2.505 · #a85e53
- Bravado RedΔE00 2.592 · #a0524e
- Dried TomatoesΔE00 2.601 · #ab6057
- Pottery RedΔE00 2.641 · #b05d59
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.