HueComb

Miyamoto Red

#e4030f

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

#e4030f

RGB

228, 3, 15

OKLCh

57.8% 0.235 28.2°

CIELAB (D50)

48.7, 74.1, 59.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 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 70.8; on black, Lc -30.9. 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 42.5 and 45.8 and 50.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.86:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.32:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.86:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e4030f

protanopia

#545416 · ΔE00 42.5

deuteranopia

#838300 · ΔE00 45.8

tritanopia

#a6a600 · ΔE00 50.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMario at ΔE00 0.12: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.