Barbarossa
#a84734
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a84734
RGB
168, 71, 52
OKLCh
52.2% 0.132 32.8°
CIELAB (D50)
43.4, 39.8, 32.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.4; on black, Lc -23.4. 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 29.6 and 32.8 and 38.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.81:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.62:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.81:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a84734
protanopia
#595935 · ΔE00 29.6
deuteranopia
#6f6f2e · ΔE00 32.8
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 38.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChipolata at ΔE00 0.867: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ChipolataΔE00 0.867 · #aa4433
- RambutanΔE00 0.963 · #a94737
- Chocolate ChilliΔE00 1.251 · #ab4231
- Toasted PaprikaΔE00 1.285 · #a34631
- Canyon WallΔE00 1.54 · #a14935
- Rodeo RedΔE00 1.811 · #a24b3a
- PicanteΔE00 1.931 · #a04933
- Sun’s RageΔE00 2.026 · #a94e37
- Texas HeatwaveΔE00 2.085 · #a54e37
- Toasted CranberryΔE00 2.102 · #a24a3b
- Wilted BrownΔE00 2.14 · #ab4c3d
- Red TerraΔE00 2.223 · #ae4930
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.