Crimson Boy
#b44933
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b44933
RGB
180, 73, 51
OKLCh
54.4% 0.144 33.3°
CIELAB (D50)
45.8, 43.4, 35.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.8; on black, Lc -25.9. 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 31.3 and 34.6 and 39.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.94:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b44933
protanopia
#5d5d34 · ΔE00 31.3
deuteranopia
#76762b · ΔE00 34.6
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 39.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHearty Orange at ΔE00 0.505: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hearty OrangeΔE00 0.505 · #b44b34
- Spiced UpΔE00 1.254 · #b14b38
- Kabacha BrownΔE00 1.269 · #b14a30
- Red TerraΔE00 1.526 · #ae4930
- Browned OffΔE00 1.857 · #bb4433
- Crimson WarriorΔE00 1.999 · #b35138
- Volcanic UnrestΔE00 2.065 · #be462f
- Vermilion RedΔE00 2.104 · #b5493a
- Hot ChilliΔE00 2.16 · #b7513a
- Glowing CoalsΔE00 2.239 · #bc4d39
- Fiery TopazΔE00 2.252 · #b74537
- Suzume BrownΔE00 2.417 · #aa4f37
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.