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#a30112
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a30112
RGB
163, 1, 18
OKLCh
45.1% 0.183 26.4°
CIELAB (D50)
34.4, 57.9, 41.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 85.7; on black, Lc -16.3. 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 35.5 and 40.3 and 44.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.57:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a30112
protanopia
#393915 · ΔE00 35.5
deuteranopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 40.3
tritanopia
#767600 · ΔE00 44.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpartan Crimson at ΔE00 1.173: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spartan CrimsonΔE00 1.173 · #9e1316
- Heavy RedΔE00 1.242 · #9e1212
- ChorizoΔE00 1.506 · #aa0011
- Vampire FictionΔE00 1.55 · #9b0f11
- Bleeding CrimsonΔE00 1.564 · #9b1414
- Crisp Christmas CranberriesΔE00 1.597 · #a6080e
- Caraquenian CrimsonΔE00 1.607 · #9c0013
- Mechrite RedΔE00 1.695 · #a31713
- Mephiston RedΔE00 1.726 · #9a1115
- Romantic ThrillerΔE00 1.834 · #a2101b
- Clotted RedΔE00 1.913 · #991115
- CarnivoreΔE00 1.914 · #991111
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.