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#d34d4d
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d34d4d
RGB
211, 77, 77
OKLCh
60.2% 0.170 23.7°
CIELAB (D50)
52.1, 53.7, 29.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.5; on black, Lc -33.2. 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 33.6 and 39.6 and 48.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.25:1 — large text only
Black text
4.94:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.94:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ce4949 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d34d4d
protanopia
#68684e · ΔE00 33.6
deuteranopia
#878746 · ΔE00 39.6
tritanopia
#a2a200 · ΔE00 48.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGinger Flower at ΔE00 1.132: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ginger FlowerΔE00 1.132 · #cf524e
- Faded RedΔE00 1.266 · #d3494e
- Chestnut RoseΔE00 1.523 · #cd5252
- African MahoganyΔE00 1.571 · #cd4a4a
- Chinese DragonΔE00 1.678 · #cb5251
- Re-EntryΔE00 1.875 · #dd484e
- Race Car StripeΔE00 2.228 · #cf4944
- Bullfighters RedΔE00 2.268 · #cd4646
- English VermillionΔE00 2.367 · #cc474b
- Cute CrabΔE00 2.497 · #dd4444
- Zhū Hóng VermillionΔE00 2.667 · #cb464a
- CapocolloΔE00 2.683 · #d9544d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.