Red Seal
#c92d21
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c92d21
RGB
201, 45, 33
OKLCh
54.7% 0.194 29.4°
CIELAB (D50)
45.6, 60.4, 46.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 87% 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 75.4; on black, Lc -26.3. 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 37.7 and 42.2 and 46.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.88:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c92d21
protanopia
#545424 · ΔE00 37.7
deuteranopia
#797909 · ΔE00 42.2
tritanopia
#959500 · ΔE00 46.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Mist at ΔE00 0.519: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red MistΔE00 0.519 · #c92b1e
- Clear RedΔE00 1.072 · #ce261c
- Lucky LobsterΔE00 1.374 · #cc3322
- Bloody RedΔE00 1.413 · #ca1f1b
- LionheartΔE00 1.576 · #cc2222
- Pizza FlameΔE00 1.579 · #cd2217
- Heroic RedΔE00 1.753 · #d1191c
- Red RhapsodyΔE00 1.758 · #ca1b1b
- Thunder Mountain Longhorn PepperΔE00 1.787 · #ce1b1f
- MinestroneΔE00 1.9 · #c72616
- Light Shōrei RedΔE00 2.004 · #d0181f
- Hot LipsΔE00 2.046 · #c9312b
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.