Red Devil
#860111
A red that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#860111
RGB
134, 1, 17
OKLCh
39.1% 0.158 25.3°
CIELAB (D50)
27.7, 50.1, 33.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 91.7; on black, Lc -10.7. 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 32.0 and 37.1 and 40.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.36:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.03:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.36:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#860111
protanopia
#2e2e13 · ΔE00 32.0
deuteranopia
#4b4b01 · ΔE00 37.1
tritanopia
#606000 · ΔE00 40.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBloodthirsty at ΔE00 0.393: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BloodthirstyΔE00 0.393 · #880011
- Sneaky DevilΔE00 1.237 · #840014
- CrimsonΔE00 1.511 · #8c000f
- Grubby RedΔE00 1.816 · #811412
- NetherworldΔE00 1.831 · #881111
- Laura PotatoΔE00 2.012 · #800008
- Falu RedΔE00 2.199 · #801818
- UP MaroonΔE00 2.275 · #7b1113
- Kiss of a VampireΔE00 2.301 · #8a0009
- Secret ScarletΔE00 2.519 · #7a0e0e
- Red ReignΔE00 2.611 · #800707
- StizzaΔE00 2.641 · #900910
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.