Spikey Red
#600000
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#600000
RGB
96, 0, 0
OKLCh
30.7% 0.126 29.2°
CIELAB (D50)
18.4, 39.5, 28.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 98.9; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 28.6 and 31.0 and 33.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.02:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.50:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.02:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#600000
protanopia
#1e1e02 · ΔE00 28.6
deuteranopia
#343400 · ΔE00 31.0
tritanopia
#444400 · ΔE00 33.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVampire Hunter at ΔE00 1.024: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Vampire HunterΔE00 1.024 · #610507
- Red BloodΔE00 1.388 · #660000
- Blood GodΔE00 1.866 · #67080b
- Sacramental RedΔE00 1.909 · #5e0e0b
- Blood of ZeusΔE00 1.943 · #640f09
- Mathematical RageΔE00 1.955 · #590a01
- Arcavia RedΔE00 2.125 · #6a0002
- RosewoodΔE00 2.15 · #65000b
- Beastly RedΔE00 2.176 · #680c08
- Khorne RedΔE00 2.2 · #6a0001
- Blood OrganΔE00 2.281 · #630f0f
- Vampiric CouncilΔE00 2.306 · #5c0c0c
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.