Lava
#cf1020
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cf1020
RGB
207, 16, 32
OKLCh
54.2% 0.214 26.1°
CIELAB (D50)
44.7, 67.8, 47.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 22 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 97% 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 75.6; on black, Lc -26.1. 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 39.4 and 45.2 and 49.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.60:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.75:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.60:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cf1020
protanopia
#4d4d23 · ΔE00 39.4
deuteranopia
#787802 · ΔE00 45.2
tritanopia
#979700 · ΔE00 49.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFire Axe Red at ΔE00 0.36: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fire Axe RedΔE00 0.36 · #ce1620
- Cartoon ViolenceΔE00 0.562 · #d01722
- Dangerous AffairΔE00 0.603 · #d00220
- Blood OrangeΔE00 0.695 · #d1001c
- Chinese RedΔE00 0.712 · #cd071e
- Pedestrian RedΔE00 0.85 · #cc1122
- Light Shōrei RedΔE00 0.915 · #d0181f
- Thunder Mountain Longhorn PepperΔE00 0.962 · #ce1b1f
- Scarlet SplendourΔE00 1.116 · #cc0c1b
- LionheartΔE00 1.165 · #cc2222
- Flush MahoganyΔE00 1.247 · #ca2425
- Fierce RedΔE00 1.472 · #cc0021
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.