Salsa Picante
#ab250b
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ab250b
RGB
171, 37, 11
OKLCh
48.4% 0.173 32.4°
CIELAB (D50)
38.6, 53.3, 48.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 82.7; on black, Lc -19.2. 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 35.0 and 37.7 and 41.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.00:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at7.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ab250b
protanopia
#47470f · ΔE00 35.0
deuteranopia
#666600 · ΔE00 37.7
tritanopia
#7e7e00 · ΔE00 41.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrchestra of Red at ΔE00 0.885: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Orchestra of RedΔE00 0.885 · #ae230e
- China RedΔE00 1.04 · #ad2b10
- Rust RedΔE00 1.363 · #aa2704
- RufousΔE00 1.411 · #a81c07
- Santa Belly RedΔE00 1.521 · #ad2c15
- Evil CentipedeΔE00 1.527 · #aa2211
- SaveloyΔE00 1.574 · #aa2200
- Tomato SauceΔE00 1.583 · #b21807
- Red GoreΔE00 1.665 · #ad1400
- Wazdakka RedΔE00 1.693 · #b21b00
- Enfield BrownΔE00 2.048 · #a73211
- Cave PaintingΔE00 2.051 · #aa1100
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.