HueComb

Blazing

#e94e41

A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#e94e41

RGB

233, 78, 65

OKLCh

63.7% 0.193 28.5°

CIELAB (D50)

56.0, 60.1, 42.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.8; on black, Lc -37.9. 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 37.8 and 42.7 and 48.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.73:1 — large text only

Black text

5.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d93e33 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e94e41

protanopia

#6f6f43 · ΔE00 37.8

deuteranopia

#939336 · ΔE00 42.7

tritanopia

#b1b100 · ΔE00 48.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCarmine Pink at ΔE00 0.634: 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.