Cherry Velvet
#e10646
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
#e10646
RGB
225, 6, 70
OKLCh
57.9% 0.230 16.9°
CIELAB (D50)
48.6, 74.1, 30.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.1; on black, Lc -30.6. 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 35.4 and 47.3 and 57.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.32:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e10646
protanopia
#535348 · ΔE00 35.4
deuteranopia
#82823c · ΔE00 47.3
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 57.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLotti Red at ΔE00 0.563: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lotti RedΔE00 0.563 · #e40046
- Red HerringΔE00 0.831 · #dd1144
- Eternal CherryΔE00 1.032 · #dd0044
- Cosmic RedΔE00 1.531 · #da244b
- Red Prickly PearΔE00 1.629 · #d92849
- Spanish CrimsonΔE00 1.742 · #e51a4c
- Crossing the LineΔE00 1.785 · #dd2244
- Joker’s SmileΔE00 2.338 · #d70141
- Rich CarmineΔE00 2.359 · #d70041
- Sunset RidersΔE00 2.407 · #d70040
- AnarchistΔE00 2.439 · #db304a
- LollipopΔE00 2.528 · #d91e3f
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.