Anarchist
#db304a
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#db304a
RGB
219, 48, 74
OKLCh
58.7% 0.205 18.6°
CIELAB (D50)
49.9, 65.9, 29.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 87% 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 70.6; on black, Lc -31.1. 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 34.9 and 44.3 and 54.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.53:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#db304a
protanopia
#5c5c4b · ΔE00 34.9
deuteranopia
#838341 · ΔE00 44.3
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 54.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Prickly Pear at ΔE00 1.348: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Red Prickly PearΔE00 1.348 · #d92849
- Crossing the LineΔE00 1.415 · #dd2244
- Bloody RustΔE00 1.641 · #da2c43
- Smooch RougeΔE00 1.906 · #d13d4b
- Cosmic RedΔE00 1.977 · #da244b
- Spanish CrimsonΔE00 2.152 · #e51a4c
- Manganese RedΔE00 2.228 · #e52b50
- Cruel RubyΔE00 2.257 · #dd3344
- Flesh and BloodΔE00 2.312 · #cf3f4f
- Red HerringΔE00 2.349 · #dd1144
- Lotti RedΔE00 2.435 · #e40046
- Cherry VelvetΔE00 2.439 · #e10646
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.