Minestrone
#c72616
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c72616
RGB
199, 38, 22
OKLCh
53.8% 0.198 30.2°
CIELAB (D50)
44.4, 61.5, 51.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 92% 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 76.5; on black, Lc -25.3. 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 38.2 and 41.8 and 46.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.72:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c72616
protanopia
#51511a · ΔE00 38.2
deuteranopia
#767600 · ΔE00 41.8
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 46.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Spice at ΔE00 1.107: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hot SpiceΔE00 1.107 · #cc2211
- Pizza FlameΔE00 1.15 · #cd2217
- Red MistΔE00 1.396 · #c92b1e
- Hawthorn BerryΔE00 1.449 · #cc1111
- Love GoddessΔE00 1.58 · #cd0d0d
- Bloody RedΔE00 1.636 · #ca1f1b
- Clear RedΔE00 1.773 · #ce261c
- Cherry CrushΔE00 1.781 · #c71414
- Hypnotic RedΔE00 1.897 · #cf0d14
- Red SealΔE00 1.9 · #c92d21
- Red RhapsodyΔE00 1.992 · #ca1b1b
- Love for AllΔE00 2.08 · #cd0106
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.