Red Wrath of Zeus
#e0180c
A red that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#e0180c
RGB
224, 24, 12
OKLCh
57.6% 0.227 29.6°
CIELAB (D50)
48.6, 71.0, 60.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 24 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 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 71.4; on black, Lc -30.2. 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 41.7 and 44.5 and 49.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.31:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e0180c
protanopia
#555513 · ΔE00 41.7
deuteranopia
#828200 · ΔE00 44.5
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 49.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBern Red at ΔE00 0.534: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bern RedΔE00 0.534 · #e20909
- Halloween PunchΔE00 0.626 · #dd2211
- Hot Flamin ChilliΔE00 0.722 · #dd180e
- Level !ΔE00 0.728 · #e4090b
- Little Red CorvetteΔE00 1.025 · #e50102
- Passion for RevengeΔE00 1.124 · #dd0d06
- Run Lola RunΔE00 1.157 · #da2811
- Heat SignatureΔE00 1.159 · #e3000e
- LifeguardΔE00 1.168 · #e50000
- Miyamoto RedΔE00 1.178 · #e4030f
- Thicker Than WaterΔE00 1.22 · #e02006
- MarioΔE00 1.261 · #e4000f
3 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.