Bricky Brick
#b33a22
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b33a22
RGB
179, 58, 34
OKLCh
52.1% 0.161 33.1°
CIELAB (D50)
43.0, 48.9, 42.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.6; on black, Lc -23.2. 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 33.6 and 37.1 and 41.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.55:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b33a22
protanopia
#545424 · ΔE00 33.6
deuteranopia
#707014 · ΔE00 37.1
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 41.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmouldering at ΔE00 1.347: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SmoulderingΔE00 1.347 · #b6321e
- Chinese BrownΔE00 1.794 · #ab381f
- Rooibos TeaΔE00 1.836 · #ae3c29
- Grilled TomatoΔE00 1.848 · #af3519
- Crimson BlazeΔE00 1.956 · #ad3d1e
- Chinese NightΔE00 2.042 · #aa381e
- Red DeathΔE00 2.433 · #ba2a1a
- Azshara VeinΔE00 2.573 · #b13916
- Crimson SwordΔE00 2.66 · #b53111
- Red GravyΔE00 2.664 · #b83312
- Cardinal’s CassockΔE00 2.774 · #b33125
- BloodshedΔE00 2.815 · #ba271a
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.