Peanut Butter Jelly
#ce4a2d
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ce4a2d
RGB
206, 74, 45
OKLCh
58.6% 0.173 33.9°
CIELAB (D50)
50.5, 52.1, 45.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.4; on black, Lc -31.2. 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 35.4 and 38.7 and 43.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ce4a2d
protanopia
#65652f · ΔE00 35.4
deuteranopia
#84841f · ΔE00 38.7
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 43.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPompeii Red at ΔE00 0.896: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pompeii RedΔE00 0.896 · #d1462c
- FoxΔE00 1.171 · #ca4e33
- Dizzy DaysΔE00 1.229 · #d14e2f
- Mr. KrabsΔE00 1.577 · #d04127
- TrinidadΔE00 1.846 · #c54f33
- Orange KeeperΔE00 1.855 · #ca5333
- Hawaiian Ahi PokeΔE00 1.972 · #d24833
- Underpass ShrineΔE00 1.991 · #cc4422
- Glazed PersimmonΔE00 2.117 · #d34e36
- Scarlet RebelsΔE00 2.167 · #d44531
- Painted PoppyΔE00 2.173 · #cb5139
- Spicy TomatoΔE00 2.263 · #c75433
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.