Desirable
#a93435
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a93435
RGB
169, 52, 53
OKLCh
50.0% 0.153 24.1°
CIELAB (D50)
40.4, 48.4, 28.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.2; on black, Lc -20.7. 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 31.5 and 36.8 and 44.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.50:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.23:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.50:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a93435
protanopia
#4d4d36 · ΔE00 31.5
deuteranopia
#69692e · ΔE00 36.8
tritanopia
#7f7f00 · ΔE00 44.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaging Raisin at ΔE00 0.579: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Raging RaisinΔE00 0.579 · #aa3333
- Red InkΔE00 0.616 · #ac3235
- Lobster BrownΔE00 0.803 · #a73836
- HeartthrobΔE00 1.17 · #a82e33
- Emperor Cherry RedΔE00 1.256 · #ac2c32
- Hibiscus RedΔE00 1.293 · #a33737
- TanagerΔE00 1.355 · #a43834
- Drive-In CherryΔE00 1.391 · #a62e30
- Positive RedΔE00 1.451 · #ad2c34
- Très BienΔE00 1.623 · #a82f2e
- IndiscreetΔE00 1.664 · #ac3b3b
- Unmatched BeautyΔE00 1.717 · #b12d35
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.