Heartwarming
#bf1818
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bf1818
RGB
191, 24, 24
OKLCh
51.4% 0.198 27.9°
CIELAB (D50)
41.7, 62.3, 47.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 94% 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 79.1; on black, Lc -22.7. 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 37.9 and 42.4 and 46.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.36:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bf1818
protanopia
#49491b · ΔE00 37.9
deuteranopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 42.4
tritanopia
#8c8c00 · ΔE00 46.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFurious Tomato at ΔE00 1.058: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Furious TomatoΔE00 1.058 · #c30a12
- Red InfernoΔE00 1.334 · #bb1e1e
- Red RiderΔE00 1.404 · #b9271c
- Sinoper RedΔE00 1.433 · #bb1111
- BloodshedΔE00 1.489 · #ba271a
- Haemoglobin RedΔE00 1.551 · #c61a1b
- Evil Sunz ScarletΔE00 1.556 · #c2191f
- Venetian RedΔE00 1.595 · #c80815
- Harvard CrimsonΔE00 1.731 · #c90016
- Cherry CrushΔE00 1.773 · #c71414
- Red BaronΔE00 1.817 · #bb0011
- Red Tolumnia OrchidΔE00 1.83 · #be0119
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.