Monza
#c7031e
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c7031e
RGB
199, 3, 30
OKLCh
52.3% 0.211 25.4°
CIELAB (D50)
42.5, 67.0, 45.8
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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.6; on black, Lc -24.1. 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 38.8 and 44.8 and 49.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.46:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c7031e
protanopia
#484821 · ΔE00 38.8
deuteranopia
#727201 · ΔE00 44.8
tritanopia
#919100 · ΔE00 49.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarilyn MonRouge at ΔE00 0.365: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Marilyn MonRougeΔE00 0.365 · #c9001e
- Rossini RedΔE00 0.529 · #c4091e
- Bloodthirsty LipsΔE00 0.608 · #c6101e
- Say It With Red RosesΔE00 0.779 · #c7111e
- Evil Sunz ScarletΔE00 1.113 · #c2191f
- Fierce RedΔE00 1.114 · #cc0021
- Rare RhubarbΔE00 1.244 · #cc0022
- Tedious RedΔE00 1.428 · #c00c20
- Chinese RedΔE00 1.44 · #cd071e
- Pedestrian RedΔE00 1.483 · #cc1122
- Star and Crescent RedΔE00 1.58 · #c51f26
- Scarlet SplendourΔE00 1.791 · #cc0c1b
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.