Valentine Lava
#ba0728
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ba0728
RGB
186, 7, 40
OKLCh
50.0% 0.199 22.5°
CIELAB (D50)
39.9, 63.5, 36.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 80.5; on black, Lc -21.4. 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 36.1 and 43.4 and 49.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.15:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ba0728
protanopia
#44442a · ΔE00 36.1
deuteranopia
#6a6a1a · ΔE00 43.4
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 49.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCadmium Purple at ΔE00 0.851: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cadmium PurpleΔE00 0.851 · #b60c26
- Holly Jolly ChristmasΔE00 1.252 · #b50729
- NipponΔE00 1.28 · #bc002c
- SalsaΔE00 1.344 · #b31928
- Pixel BleedingΔE00 1.497 · #bb0022
- Hinomaru RedΔE00 1.56 · #bc002d
- Red Dead RedemptionΔE00 1.59 · #bb012d
- KirschΔE00 1.734 · #b2132b
- Akai RedΔE00 1.807 · #bc012e
- Red City of MoroccoΔE00 1.87 · #c10c27
- Ruby ShardΔE00 1.915 · #bd1c30
- Tango RedΔE00 2.005 · #b10e2a
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.