Salami
#820000
A red that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#820000
RGB
130, 0, 0
OKLCh
38.1% 0.156 29.2°
CIELAB (D50)
26.6, 49.0, 40.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.5; on black, Lc -9.9. 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 32.4 and 35.1 and 38.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.95:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#820000
protanopia
#2c2c03 · ΔE00 32.4
deuteranopia
#484800 · ΔE00 35.1
tritanopia
#5d5d00 · ΔE00 38.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Red at ΔE00 0.418: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dark RedΔE00 0.418 · #840000
- MaroonΔE00 0.42 · #800000
- Sacrifice AltarΔE00 0.621 · #850101
- Proton RedΔE00 0.772 · #840804
- ChanticleerΔE00 1.043 · #870000
- Red ReignΔE00 1.168 · #800707
- Glass BullΔE00 1.25 · #880000
- Demonic PresenceΔE00 1.253 · #7c0a02
- Indian RedΔE00 1.357 · #850e04
- Blood OmenΔE00 1.657 · #8a0303
- Laura PotatoΔE00 1.812 · #800008
- Scab RedΔE00 1.871 · #8b0000
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.