Cadillac Coupe
#c0362c
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c0362c
RGB
192, 54, 44
OKLCh
54.0% 0.176 28.6°
CIELAB (D50)
45.0, 55.0, 39.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.3; on black, Lc -25.4. 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 35.4 and 40.1 and 45.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.81:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.52:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c0362c
protanopia
#56562e · ΔE00 35.4
deuteranopia
#767620 · ΔE00 40.1
tritanopia
#909000 · ΔE00 45.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolden Gate Bridge at ΔE00 0.272: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Golden Gate BridgeΔE00 0.272 · #c0362d
- Valiant PoppyΔE00 1.338 · #bc3c2c
- Peri PeriΔE00 1.615 · #c62d2c
- Hot LipsΔE00 1.647 · #c9312b
- GinshuΔE00 1.954 · #bc2d29
- KnockoutΔE00 2.078 · #c42b2d
- Cherry PieΔE00 2.145 · #bd2c22
- Caught Red-HandedΔE00 2.188 · #be4236
- Flush MahoganyΔE00 2.24 · #ca2425
- StopΔE00 2.325 · #c33a36
- AkabeniΔE00 2.381 · #c3272b
- Browned OffΔE00 2.417 · #bb4433
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.