Kid Icarus
#a81000
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a81000
RGB
168, 16, 0
OKLCh
46.5% 0.183 30.6°
CIELAB (D50)
36.1, 57.1, 51.1
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 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 84.5; on black, Lc -17.5. 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 36.1 and 38.4 and 42.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a81000
protanopia
#3e3e05 · ΔE00 36.1
deuteranopia
#616100 · ΔE00 38.4
tritanopia
#7a7a00 · ΔE00 42.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNatural Leather at ΔE00 0.164: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Natural LeatherΔE00 0.164 · #a80e00
- Cave PaintingΔE00 0.444 · #aa1100
- HeartbeatΔE00 0.975 · #aa0000
- Red DoorΔE00 1.029 · #ac0000
- RufousΔE00 1.087 · #a81c07
- Mordant Red 19ΔE00 1.125 · #ae0c00
- Velvet VolcanoΔE00 1.181 · #ab0102
- Red GoreΔE00 1.194 · #ad1400
- Red PentacleΔE00 1.317 · #a60000
- Gory RedΔE00 1.355 · #a30800
- Stanger RedΔE00 1.621 · #a40000
- Real RedΔE00 2.085 · #a90308
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.