Tomato Queen
#dd4422
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dd4422
RGB
221, 68, 34
OKLCh
60.3% 0.195 33.8°
CIELAB (D50)
52.2, 59.2, 53.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% 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 68.2; on black, Lc -33.4. 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 38.3 and 41.5 and 45.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.26:1 — large text only
Black text
4.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#d83f1d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dd4422
protanopia
#666625 · ΔE00 38.3
deuteranopia
#8a8a04 · ΔE00 41.5
tritanopia
#a7a700 · ΔE00 45.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFurnace at ΔE00 0.966: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- FurnaceΔE00 0.966 · #dd4124
- Crab CurryΔE00 1.138 · #d94b28
- Astorath RedΔE00 1.432 · #dd482b
- Hunter’s OrangeΔE00 1.725 · #db472c
- Spicy OrangeΔE00 1.854 · #da482d
- Scoville HighΔE00 2.061 · #e34b26
- Raiden’s FuryΔE00 2.208 · #e34029
- Vulcan FireΔE00 2.484 · #e6390d
- Thermic OrangeΔE00 2.539 · #eb3318
- Lionfish RedΔE00 2.544 · #e03c28
- Dizzy DaysΔE00 2.584 · #d14e2f
- Dynamite RedΔE00 2.631 · #dd3311
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.