Flesh and Blood
#cf3f4f
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cf3f4f
RGB
207, 63, 79
OKLCh
58.0% 0.180 18.6°
CIELAB (D50)
49.4, 57.8, 25.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.4; on black, Lc -30.2. 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 32.5 and 40.8 and 51.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.69:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.48:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.69:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cf3f4f
protanopia
#5f5f50 · ΔE00 32.5
deuteranopia
#818148 · ΔE00 40.8
tritanopia
#9c9c00 · ΔE00 51.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmooch Rouge at ΔE00 1.134: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Smooch RougeΔE00 1.134 · #d13d4b
- Feverish PinkΔE00 1.201 · #cb3e50
- PezzottaiteΔE00 1.473 · #d03b52
- Tōnatiuh RedΔE00 1.525 · #d14155
- New Brick RedΔE00 1.716 · #cb4154
- English CoralΔE00 2.204 · #c64a55
- Lingonberry RedΔE00 2.247 · #ce4458
- AnarchistΔE00 2.312 · #db304a
- Red Prickly PearΔE00 2.59 · #d92849
- English VermillionΔE00 2.61 · #cc474b
- Zhū Hóng VermillionΔE00 2.61 · #cb464a
- Calypso BerryΔE00 2.62 · #c53a4b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.