Devilish
#dd3322
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#dd3322
RGB
221, 51, 34
OKLCh
58.8% 0.208 30.1°
CIELAB (D50)
50.2, 64.7, 52.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 89% 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 70.3; on black, Lc -31.4. 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 39.7 and 43.9 and 47.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.57:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dd3322
protanopia
#5d5d25 · ΔE00 39.7
deuteranopia
#858502 · ΔE00 43.9
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 47.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShōjōhi Red at ΔE00 0.762: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Shōjōhi RedΔE00 0.762 · #dc3023
- Fatal FuryΔE00 1.243 · #da321c
- FerociousΔE00 1.243 · #e2261f
- PoincianaΔE00 1.426 · #db372a
- Kiss of the ScorpionΔE00 1.534 · #dc331a
- Rackham RedΔE00 1.606 · #d6341e
- Lionfish RedΔE00 1.677 · #e03c28
- Akira RedΔE00 1.838 · #e12120
- Wistful LongingΔE00 1.88 · #e33928
- LustΔE00 1.919 · #e62020
- Steelhead ReddΔE00 1.971 · #d43728
- Ceremonial Red RibbonΔE00 2.025 · #e63127
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.