Chicken Comb
#dd2222
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#dd2222
RGB
221, 34, 34
OKLCh
57.6% 0.219 27.6°
CIELAB (D50)
48.7, 68.7, 50.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 93% 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 71.6; on black, Lc -30.1. 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 40.5 and 45.6 and 49.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.33:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dd2222
protanopia
#575725 · ΔE00 40.5
deuteranopia
#828201 · ΔE00 45.6
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 49.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMaximum Red at ΔE00 0.916: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Maximum RedΔE00 0.916 · #d92121
- Akira RedΔE00 0.954 · #e12120
- Shojo’s BloodΔE00 1.272 · #e2041b
- Piercing RedΔE00 1.464 · #dd1122
- Tomato BabyΔE00 1.487 · #e10d18
- Shōjōhi RedΔE00 1.648 · #dc3023
- FerociousΔE00 1.719 · #e2261f
- Cadmium RedΔE00 1.721 · #e30022
- Red Hot Chili PepperΔE00 1.723 · #db1d27
- Whero RedΔE00 1.787 · #dd262b
- Silken RubyΔE00 1.892 · #e81320
- Brutal DoomΔE00 1.926 · #e61626
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.