Bloody Mary
#ba0105
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ba0105
RGB
186, 1, 5
OKLCh
49.6% 0.203 28.7°
CIELAB (D50)
39.5, 63.7, 53.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 80.7; on black, Lc -21.2. 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 38.4 and 41.4 and 45.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.09:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ba0105
protanopia
#43430b · ΔE00 38.4
deuteranopia
#6a6a00 · ΔE00 41.4
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 45.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBullseye at ΔE00 0.785: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BullseyeΔE00 0.785 · #b9030a
- Harlock’s CapeΔE00 0.866 · #bb0000
- International OrangeΔE00 1.088 · #ba160c
- Red SentinelΔE00 1.436 · #b9090f
- All Systems RedΔE00 1.437 · #b30103
- Federation of LoveΔE00 1.522 · #b71010
- Free Speech RedΔE00 1.54 · #c00000
- Tomato SauceΔE00 1.567 · #b21807
- Ghost PepperΔE00 1.588 · #c10102
- Sinoper RedΔE00 1.614 · #bb1111
- Red LustΔE00 1.647 · #b4090d
- Red Prayer FlagΔE00 1.649 · #bb1100
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.