Raging Raisin
#aa3333
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa3333
RGB
170, 51, 51
OKLCh
50.0% 0.155 24.7°
CIELAB (D50)
40.4, 49.1, 29.3
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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.2; on black, Lc -20.7. 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 31.9 and 37.2 and 44.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.50:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.23:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.50:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa3333
protanopia
#4d4d34 · ΔE00 31.9
deuteranopia
#69692c · ΔE00 37.2
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 44.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDesirable at ΔE00 0.579: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- DesirableΔE00 0.579 · #a93435
- Red InkΔE00 0.784 · #ac3235
- Lobster BrownΔE00 0.981 · #a73836
- Très BienΔE00 1.188 · #a82f2e
- Emperor Cherry RedΔE00 1.253 · #ac2c32
- Drive-In CherryΔE00 1.333 · #a62e30
- TanagerΔE00 1.351 · #a43834
- HeartthrobΔE00 1.409 · #a82e33
- Sweet BrownΔE00 1.456 · #a83731
- Cross My HeartΔE00 1.502 · #ad2a2d
- Positive RedΔE00 1.628 · #ad2c34
- Hibiscus RedΔE00 1.739 · #a33737
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.