Vampire Fiction
#9b0f11
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9b0f11
RGB
155, 15, 17
OKLCh
44.0% 0.171 27.7°
CIELAB (D50)
33.3, 53.8, 40.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 95% 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 87.2; on black, Lc -14.9. 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 34.2 and 38.5 and 42.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.50:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.47:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.50:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9b0f11
protanopia
#393914 · ΔE00 34.2
deuteranopia
#595900 · ΔE00 38.5
tritanopia
#717100 · ΔE00 42.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCarnivore at ΔE00 0.374: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CarnivoreΔE00 0.374 · #991111
- Bleeding CrimsonΔE00 0.548 · #9b1414
- Heavy RedΔE00 0.715 · #9e1212
- Noble CauseΔE00 0.82 · #990c0d
- Mephiston RedΔE00 0.963 · #9a1115
- Clotted RedΔE00 1.069 · #991115
- Spartan CrimsonΔE00 1.116 · #9e1316
- RedwingΔE00 1.167 · #98010d
- USC CardinalΔE00 1.263 · #990010
- Shades of RubyΔE00 1.296 · #9c0009
- Strawberry CoughΔE00 1.412 · #990011
- Caraquenian CrimsonΔE00 1.466 · #9c0013
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.