Poppy
#c23c47
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c23c47
RGB
194, 60, 71
OKLCh
55.4% 0.170 20.2°
CIELAB (D50)
46.5, 54.4, 25.7
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 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.8; on black, Lc -27.0. 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 32.2 and 39.4 and 49.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c23c47
protanopia
#595948 · ΔE00 32.2
deuteranopia
#797940 · ΔE00 39.4
tritanopia
#929200 · ΔE00 49.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRococco Red at ΔE00 0.642: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rococco RedΔE00 0.642 · #c33846
- Precious PeonyΔE00 0.984 · #bd4048
- Watermelon RedΔE00 1.059 · #bf4147
- Striking RedΔE00 1.399 · #c03543
- Calypso BerryΔE00 1.417 · #c53a4b
- Red IconΔE00 1.543 · #c93543
- Fire-Breathing DragonΔE00 1.586 · #bf3747
- Chinese SafflowerΔE00 1.695 · #b94047
- Bloody SafflowerΔE00 1.752 · #c53d43
- C-3POΔE00 1.799 · #c33140
- Infrared FlushΔE00 1.903 · #cc3344
- Dragon’s BloodΔE00 1.926 · #b84048
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.