Paprika Kisses
#c24325
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c24325
RGB
194, 67, 37
OKLCh
55.7% 0.168 34.5°
CIELAB (D50)
47.2, 50.6, 45.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.1; on black, Lc -27.6. 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 34.6 and 37.9 and 41.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.09:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.12:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.09:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c24325
protanopia
#5d5d27 · ΔE00 34.6
deuteranopia
#7b7b15 · ΔE00 37.9
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 41.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShēn Chéng Orange at ΔE00 1.085: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Shēn Chéng OrangeΔE00 1.085 · #c03f20
- Pureed PumpkinΔE00 1.095 · #c74222
- GazpachoΔE00 1.638 · #c23b22
- Autumn RobinΔE00 1.647 · #c2452d
- Devil’s ButterflyΔE00 1.67 · #bb4422
- Red Sauce ParlourΔE00 2.05 · #cc3b22
- Dried SaffronΔE00 2.056 · #c33e29
- Volcanic UnrestΔE00 2.127 · #be462f
- Underpass ShrineΔE00 2.308 · #cc4422
- Mexican Red PapayaΔE00 2.33 · #c6452f
- Red FangΔE00 2.451 · #c54831
- Spice MarketΔE00 2.551 · #b84823
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.