Warlord
#ba0033
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ba0033
RGB
186, 0, 51
OKLCh
50.0% 0.200 18.6°
CIELAB (D50)
39.8, 64.5, 29.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 80.4; on black, Lc -21.4. 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 43.5 and 51.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.14:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ba0033
protanopia
#424235 · ΔE00 33.8
deuteranopia
#6a6a29 · ΔE00 43.5
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 51.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Cuba at ΔE00 0.231: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hot CubaΔE00 0.231 · #bb0033
- Crimson GloryΔE00 1.085 · #be0032
- Active VolcanoΔE00 1.178 · #bb1133
- Vinho do PortoΔE00 1.717 · #b31a38
- Akai RedΔE00 1.767 · #bc012e
- Red Dead RedemptionΔE00 1.924 · #bb012d
- Hinomaru RedΔE00 2.01 · #bc002d
- American RedΔE00 2.059 · #b32134
- Barbados CherryΔE00 2.067 · #af0a30
- Old Glory RedΔE00 2.167 · #bf0a30
- Lipstick RedΔE00 2.241 · #c0022f
- PomodoroΔE00 2.29 · #c30232
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.