Sneaky Devil
#840014
A red that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#840014
RGB
132, 0, 20
OKLCh
38.7% 0.156 24.1°
CIELAB (D50)
27.2, 49.8, 31.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 92.1; on black, Lc -10.3. 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 31.5 and 36.9 and 40.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.55:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.99:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.55:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#840014
protanopia
#2d2d16 · ΔE00 31.5
deuteranopia
#4a4a06 · ΔE00 36.9
tritanopia
#5f5f00 · ΔE00 40.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Devil at ΔE00 1.237: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Red DevilΔE00 1.237 · #860111
- BloodthirstyΔE00 1.491 · #880011
- Mythical WineΔE00 1.95 · #7a0a14
- Falu RedΔE00 2.128 · #801818
- UP MaroonΔE00 2.173 · #7b1113
- BarberaΔE00 2.252 · #8b031c
- Grubby RedΔE00 2.53 · #811412
- Blood BrotherΔE00 2.583 · #770011
- CrimsonΔE00 2.652 · #8c000f
- Secret ScarletΔE00 2.869 · #7a0e0e
- Laura PotatoΔE00 2.877 · #800008
- NetherworldΔE00 2.922 · #881111
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.