Breath of Fire
#ee0011
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
#ee0011
RGB
238, 0, 17
OKLCh
59.7% 0.244 28.1°
CIELAB (D50)
50.8, 76.8, 61.5
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 68.4; on black, Lc -33.3. 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 43.5 and 46.8 and 51.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ee0011
protanopia
#575718 · ΔE00 43.5
deuteranopia
#898900 · ΔE00 46.8
tritanopia
#aeae00 · ΔE00 51.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoman Empire Red at ΔE00 0.685: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Roman Empire RedΔE00 0.685 · #ee1111
- Hungry RedΔE00 0.71 · #f0000d
- KU CrimsonΔE00 1.367 · #e8000d
- AlarmΔE00 1.614 · #ec0003
- MVS RedΔE00 1.921 · #ee0000
- Prehistoric MeteorΔE00 1.939 · #ee2211
- Helvetia RedΔE00 1.996 · #f00000
- Level !ΔE00 2.134 · #e4090b
- Miyamoto RedΔE00 2.138 · #e4030f
- LustΔE00 2.151 · #e62020
- Spectrum RedΔE00 2.159 · #f20000
- MarioΔE00 2.203 · #e4000f
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.