Carmine
#d60036
A red that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d60036
RGB
214, 0, 54
OKLCh
55.4% 0.223 20.3°
CIELAB (D50)
45.9, 71.5, 36.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.9; on black, Lc -27.8. 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 37.5 and 46.7 and 54.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.91:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d60036
protanopia
#4e4e38 · ΔE00 37.5
deuteranopia
#7b7b29 · ΔE00 46.7
tritanopia
#9c9c00 · ΔE00 54.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKurenai Red at ΔE00 1.028: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Kurenai RedΔE00 1.028 · #d7003a
- CherryΔE00 1.464 · #cf0234
- Red TapeΔE00 1.879 · #cc1133
- Wild Rider RedΔE00 1.985 · #dc143c
- Red HotΔE00 2.05 · #dd0033
- Vivid CrimsonΔE00 2.151 · #cc0033
- Karakurenai RedΔE00 2.186 · #c91f37
- LollipopΔE00 2.215 · #d91e3f
- Red PotionΔE00 2.238 · #dd143d
- Sovereign RedΔE00 2.25 · #ce243f
- Incubation RedΔE00 2.256 · #da1d38
- Last WarningΔE00 2.372 · #d30f3f
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.