Nippon
#bc002c
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bc002c
RGB
188, 0, 44
OKLCh
50.3% 0.202 21.0°
CIELAB (D50)
40.1, 64.8, 34.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 80.0; on black, Lc -21.8. 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 35.7 and 43.9 and 50.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.17:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bc002c
protanopia
#43432e · ΔE00 35.7
deuteranopia
#6b6b1f · ΔE00 43.9
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 50.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHinomaru Red at ΔE00 0.29: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hinomaru RedΔE00 0.29 · #bc002d
- Red Dead RedemptionΔE00 0.393 · #bb012d
- Akai RedΔE00 0.546 · #bc012e
- Lipstick RedΔE00 0.979 · #c0022f
- Old Glory RedΔE00 1.056 · #bf0a30
- Valentine LavaΔE00 1.28 · #ba0728
- Holly Jolly ChristmasΔE00 1.401 · #b50729
- Crimson GloryΔE00 1.616 · #be0032
- Active VolcanoΔE00 1.624 · #bb1133
- Ruby ShardΔE00 1.703 · #bd1c30
- KirschΔE00 1.768 · #b2132b
- PomodoroΔE00 1.817 · #c30232
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.