Hot Sauce
#ab4f41
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ab4f41
RGB
171, 79, 65
OKLCh
54.1% 0.124 30.4°
CIELAB (D50)
45.6, 37.7, 27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.1; on black, Lc -25.6. 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 28.6 and 31.7 and 39.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.93:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ab4f41
protanopia
#5f5f42 · ΔE00 28.6
deuteranopia
#74743c · ΔE00 31.7
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 39.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndian Summer at ΔE00 0.817: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Indian SummerΔE00 0.817 · #a85143
- Wilted BrownΔE00 0.934 · #ab4c3d
- Squig OrangeΔE00 1.064 · #aa4f44
- Cherry BlinkΔE00 1.195 · #ad5344
- Portsmouth SpiceΔE00 1.806 · #a75546
- Maine-Anjou CattleΔE00 2.162 · #a95249
- Baked ClayΔE00 2.167 · #a35445
- CrailΔE00 2.204 · #a65648
- Rusty SwordΔE00 2.281 · #a4493d
- Burnt BrickΔE00 2.352 · #b45241
- Arabian RedΔE00 2.36 · #a14c3f
- BBQΔE00 2.361 · #a35046
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.