Samba
#aa262b
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa262b
RGB
170, 38, 43
OKLCh
48.6% 0.168 24.4°
CIELAB (D50)
38.7, 53.3, 32.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.6; on black, Lc -19.3. 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 33.2 and 39.1 and 45.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.02:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa262b
protanopia
#47472c · ΔE00 33.2
deuteranopia
#656522 · ΔE00 39.1
tritanopia
#7e7e00 · ΔE00 45.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Square at ΔE00 0.306: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red SquareΔE00 0.306 · #aa262a
- Upsdell RedΔE00 0.864 · #ae2029
- Cross My HeartΔE00 0.96 · #ad2a2d
- Red-Hot MamaΔE00 0.985 · #a91f29
- Harissa RedΔE00 1.107 · #a52a2a
- Très BienΔE00 1.277 · #a82f2e
- Drive-In CherryΔE00 1.367 · #a62e30
- Red BrownΔE00 1.437 · #a52a2f
- Fabulous RedΔE00 1.607 · #a92c29
- Emperor Cherry RedΔE00 1.617 · #ac2c32
- Haute RedΔE00 1.761 · #aa1829
- SalsaΔE00 1.775 · #b31928
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.