Cherry Bomb
#b73d3f
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b73d3f
RGB
183, 61, 63
OKLCh
53.5% 0.158 23.3°
CIELAB (D50)
44.5, 50.0, 27.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.0; on black, Lc -24.7. 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 31.9 and 37.6 and 46.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.60:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.75:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.60:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b73d3f
protanopia
#575740 · ΔE00 31.9
deuteranopia
#737338 · ΔE00 37.6
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 46.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLiquorice Stick at ΔE00 0.807: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Liquorice StickΔE00 0.807 · #b53e3d
- Scarlet TanagerΔE00 0.828 · #b43b3d
- Red Team SpiritΔE00 0.972 · #b8383b
- Dull RedΔE00 1.182 · #bb3f3f
- Rockin RedΔE00 1.265 · #bc363c
- Edgy RedΔE00 1.277 · #ba3d3c
- BangΔE00 1.329 · #bc393b
- Stylish RedΔE00 1.657 · #bc3439
- EmpowerΔE00 1.753 · #b54644
- SnakebiteΔE00 1.842 · #bb4444
- Lusty RedΔE00 1.879 · #b1383d
- Winter PoinsettiaΔE00 1.909 · #ae3c3d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.