Demonic Kiss
#d02b48
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d02b48
RGB
208, 43, 72
OKLCh
56.3% 0.199 17.5°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, 64.0, 26.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 73.5; on black, Lc -28.2. 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 33.4 and 43.3 and 53.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.12:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d02b48
protanopia
#565649 · ΔE00 33.4
deuteranopia
#7c7c40 · ΔE00 43.3
tritanopia
#9a9a00 · ΔE00 53.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTomato Puree at ΔE00 1.539: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tomato PureeΔE00 1.539 · #c9344c
- Pepper JellyΔE00 1.603 · #cc2244
- Red Prickly PearΔE00 1.759 · #d92849
- Cosmic RedΔE00 1.866 · #da244b
- Infrared FlushΔE00 1.914 · #cc3344
- French RaspberryΔE00 1.965 · #c72c48
- Blueberry LemonadeΔE00 2.061 · #d01343
- Sovereign RedΔE00 2.112 · #ce243f
- Calypso BerryΔE00 2.141 · #c53a4b
- Last WarningΔE00 2.195 · #d30f3f
- Joker’s SmileΔE00 2.201 · #d70141
- Rich CarmineΔE00 2.224 · #d70041
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.