Sacred Scarlet
#950c1b
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#950c1b
RGB
149, 12, 27
OKLCh
42.7% 0.166 24.3°
CIELAB (D50)
31.8, 52.8, 33.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.5; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 32.8 and 38.5 and 42.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.35:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#950c1b
protanopia
#36361d · ΔE00 32.8
deuteranopia
#55550e · ΔE00 38.5
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 42.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlame Hawkfish at ΔE00 0.722: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Flame HawkfishΔE00 0.722 · #960018
- Heidelberg RedΔE00 0.893 · #960117
- Noble RedΔE00 1.028 · #92181d
- Quite RedΔE00 1.099 · #97171e
- Ruby RedΔE00 1.355 · #9b111e
- EstrorubyΔE00 1.39 · #9b101f
- SocialistΔE00 1.399 · #921a1c
- Nigritella RedΔE00 1.782 · #931121
- Tilted RedΔE00 1.789 · #991122
- Classy RedΔE00 1.845 · #911f21
- ShinshuΔE00 1.885 · #8f1d21
- Xmas CandyΔE00 2.032 · #990020
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.