Cedar Chest
#c95a49
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c95a49
RGB
201, 90, 73
OKLCh
60.3% 0.145 30.6°
CIELAB (D50)
52.7, 44.2, 32.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.1; on black, Lc -33.6. 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 31.6 and 35.3 and 42.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.16:1 — large text only
Black text
5.04:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.04:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c35444 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c95a49
protanopia
#6e6e4a · ΔE00 31.6
deuteranopia
#878743 · ΔE00 35.3
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 42.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChilli Cashew at ΔE00 1.215: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chilli CashewΔE00 1.215 · #cc5544
- Bugman’s GlowΔE00 1.714 · #cd5b45
- Martian IronearthΔE00 1.791 · #c15a4b
- Grand DukeΔE00 1.837 · #cb5c45
- Wet CoralΔE00 1.967 · #d1584c
- FirebugΔE00 2.18 · #cd5c51
- EmotionalΔE00 2.269 · #c65f47
- Flame PeaΔE00 2.349 · #be5c48
- Spirit WarriorΔE00 2.461 · #d45341
- SungloΔE00 2.658 · #c76155
- Summer FigΔE00 2.666 · #c45940
- Mecca OrangeΔE00 2.774 · #bd5745
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.