Red Carpet
#bc2026
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bc2026
RGB
188, 32, 38
OKLCh
51.4% 0.190 25.7°
CIELAB (D50)
41.8, 60.1, 39.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 91% 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 79.2; on black, Lc -22.6. 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 36.3 and 42.1 and 47.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.23:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.37:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.23:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bc2026
protanopia
#4a4a28 · ΔE00 36.3
deuteranopia
#6e6e17 · ΔE00 42.1
tritanopia
#8a8a00 · ΔE00 47.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaton Rouge at ΔE00 1.178: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Baton RougeΔE00 1.178 · #b8292b
- Crisis RedΔE00 1.21 · #bb2222
- Racing RedΔE00 1.211 · #c21727
- Ruby StarΔE00 1.301 · #bb1122
- Tedious RedΔE00 1.328 · #c00c20
- Shēn Hóng RedΔE00 1.519 · #be0620
- GinshuΔE00 1.658 · #bc2d29
- Red City of MoroccoΔE00 1.73 · #c10c27
- Star and Crescent RedΔE00 1.86 · #c51f26
- Flamingo FervourΔE00 1.863 · #b42121
- Red InfernoΔE00 1.872 · #bb1e1e
- Evil Sunz ScarletΔE00 1.901 · #c2191f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.