Christmas Red
#b01b2e
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b01b2e
RGB
176, 27, 46
OKLCh
49.0% 0.181 21.6°
CIELAB (D50)
38.9, 58.0, 31.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 92% 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 82.1; on black, Lc -19.8. 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 33.8 and 41.0 and 47.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.04:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b01b2e
protanopia
#444430 · ΔE00 33.8
deuteranopia
#676724 · ΔE00 41.0
tritanopia
#818100 · ΔE00 47.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKirsch at ΔE00 0.754: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- KirschΔE00 0.754 · #b2132b
- Tango RedΔE00 0.97 · #b10e2a
- Holly Jolly ChristmasΔE00 1.405 · #b50729
- Jester RedΔE00 1.447 · #ac112c
- American RedΔE00 1.458 · #b32134
- Haute RedΔE00 1.551 · #aa1829
- Gory MovieΔE00 1.766 · #b42435
- Red-Hot MamaΔE00 1.863 · #a91f29
- Positive RedΔE00 1.879 · #ad2c34
- Upsdell RedΔE00 1.896 · #ae2029
- Emperor Cherry RedΔE00 1.904 · #ac2c32
- SalsaΔE00 1.951 · #b31928
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.