Underpass Shrine
#cc4422
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc4422
RGB
204, 68, 34
OKLCh
57.5% 0.178 34.8°
CIELAB (D50)
49.1, 53.6, 49.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% 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 71.9; on black, Lc -29.8. 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 36.0 and 39.1 and 42.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.42:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc4422
protanopia
#616125 · ΔE00 36.0
deuteranopia
#80800c · ΔE00 39.1
tritanopia
#9b9b00 · ΔE00 42.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPureed Pumpkin at ΔE00 1.285: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pureed PumpkinΔE00 1.285 · #c74222
- Mr. KrabsΔE00 1.755 · #d04127
- Sauce PiquanteΔE00 1.88 · #ca3f16
- Peanut Butter JellyΔE00 1.991 · #ce4a2d
- Lava SmoothieΔE00 2.054 · #d04014
- Red Sauce ParlourΔE00 2.139 · #cc3b22
- Pompeii RedΔE00 2.27 · #d1462c
- Paprika KissesΔE00 2.308 · #c24325
- Ake BloodΔE00 2.512 · #cf3a24
- Rackham RedΔE00 2.779 · #d6341e
- Dizzy DaysΔE00 2.817 · #d14e2f
- FoxΔE00 2.858 · #ca4e33
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.