Dazzling Red
#d82c0d
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d82c0d
RGB
216, 44, 13
OKLCh
57.2% 0.210 31.9°
CIELAB (D50)
48.4, 64.8, 58.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 72.1; on black, Lc -29.5. 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 39.9 and 42.4 and 46.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.29:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d82c0d
protanopia
#595913 · ΔE00 39.9
deuteranopia
#818100 · ΔE00 42.4
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 46.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRun Lola Run at ΔE00 0.938: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Run Lola RunΔE00 0.938 · #da2811
- Ares RedΔE00 1.206 · #dd2200
- Thicker Than WaterΔE00 1.371 · #e02006
- Halloween PunchΔE00 1.553 · #dd2211
- Dynamite RedΔE00 1.707 · #dd3311
- Midwinter FireΔE00 1.731 · #dd1100
- Red Wrath of ZeusΔE00 1.875 · #e0180c
- Kiss of the ScorpionΔE00 1.961 · #dc331a
- Hot Flamin ChilliΔE00 1.978 · #dd180e
- Fatal FuryΔE00 2.035 · #da321c
- Passion for RevengeΔE00 2.067 · #dd0d06
- OrkoΔE00 2.07 · #d91407
4 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.