Cayenne
#941100
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#941100
RGB
148, 17, 0
OKLCh
42.6% 0.165 31.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.8, 51.3, 46.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 88.7; on black, Lc -13.5. 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 33.7 and 36.0 and 39.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#941100
protanopia
#373704 · ΔE00 33.7
deuteranopia
#555500 · ΔE00 36.0
tritanopia
#6c6c00 · ΔE00 39.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrick Red at ΔE00 0.993: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brick RedΔE00 0.993 · #8f1402
- Dramatical RedΔE00 1.002 · #991100
- Deep RedΔE00 1.395 · #9a0200
- OU Crimson RedΔE00 1.417 · #990000
- Crimson RedΔE00 1.493 · #980001
- Totem PoleΔE00 1.606 · #991b07
- Bloodthirsty VampireΔE00 1.674 · #9b0503
- Cavalry BrownΔE00 1.788 · #990003
- Dragon RedΔE00 1.932 · #9e0200
- Cacodemon RedΔE00 2.124 · #9f0000
- Uluru RedΔE00 2.244 · #921d0f
- Red LeeverΔE00 2.323 · #881400
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.