Peri Peri
#c62d2c
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c62d2c
RGB
198, 45, 44
OKLCh
54.3% 0.190 26.6°
CIELAB (D50)
45.1, 59.7, 40.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 86% 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 76.0; on black, Lc -25.8. 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 36.6 and 42.1 and 47.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.51:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.81:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.51:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c62d2c
protanopia
#53532e · ΔE00 36.6
deuteranopia
#77771e · ΔE00 42.1
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 47.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKnockout at ΔE00 0.844: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- KnockoutΔE00 0.844 · #c42b2d
- AkabeniΔE00 1.302 · #c3272b
- Hot LipsΔE00 1.342 · #c9312b
- Flush MahoganyΔE00 1.415 · #ca2425
- Golden Gate BridgeΔE00 1.471 · #c0362d
- FireballΔE00 1.492 · #ce2029
- Cadillac CoupeΔE00 1.615 · #c0362c
- Star and Crescent RedΔE00 1.668 · #c51f26
- Smouldering RedΔE00 1.912 · #ca3434
- Persian RedΔE00 2 · #cc3333
- StopΔE00 2.076 · #c33a36
- GinshuΔE00 2.08 · #bc2d29
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.