Bleeding Crimson
#9b1414
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9b1414
RGB
155, 20, 20
OKLCh
44.2% 0.168 27.7°
CIELAB (D50)
33.6, 52.9, 39.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 93% 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 87.1; on black, Lc -15.0. 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 33.9 and 38.5 and 41.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.50:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9b1414
protanopia
#3b3b16 · ΔE00 33.9
deuteranopia
#595900 · ΔE00 38.5
tritanopia
#717100 · ΔE00 41.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVampire Fiction at ΔE00 0.548: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vampire FictionΔE00 0.548 · #9b0f11
- Mephiston RedΔE00 0.663 · #9a1115
- CarnivoreΔE00 0.676 · #991111
- Spartan CrimsonΔE00 0.716 · #9e1316
- Heavy RedΔE00 0.753 · #9e1212
- Clotted RedΔE00 0.814 · #991115
- Noble CauseΔE00 1.317 · #990c0d
- Antique Port WineΔE00 1.433 · #98211a
- Caraquenian CrimsonΔE00 1.447 · #9c0013
- USC CardinalΔE00 1.473 · #990010
- Strawberry CoughΔE00 1.539 · #990011
- Dear DarlingΔE00 1.564 · #a30112
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.