Naughty Hottie
#ba403a
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ba403a
RGB
186, 64, 58
OKLCh
54.3% 0.159 26.6°
CIELAB (D50)
45.4, 49.7, 31.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.0; on black, Lc -25.7. 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 32.7 and 37.7 and 44.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.88:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ba403a
protanopia
#59593b · ΔE00 32.7
deuteranopia
#767632 · ΔE00 37.7
tritanopia
#8d8d00 · ΔE00 44.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlirt Alert at ΔE00 0.954: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Flirt AlertΔE00 0.954 · #be3c37
- Crimson SilkΔE00 1.035 · #b5413b
- Stiletto LoveΔE00 1.168 · #b6453e
- ChucklesΔE00 1.184 · #bf413a
- Scarlet RedΔE00 1.223 · #b63e36
- Edgy RedΔE00 1.304 · #ba3d3c
- Habañero ChileΔE00 1.44 · #b8473d
- Crimson GlowΔE00 1.6 · #c13939
- Dull RedΔE00 1.705 · #bb3f3f
- StopΔE00 1.824 · #c33a36
- BangΔE00 1.869 · #bc393b
- Italian RedΔE00 1.887 · #b1403a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.