Pomodoro
#c30232
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c30232
RGB
195, 2, 50
OKLCh
51.8% 0.207 19.9°
CIELAB (D50)
41.8, 66.5, 33.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 78.4; on black, Lc -23.4. 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 35.5 and 44.6 and 52.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.38:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c30232
protanopia
#464634 · ΔE00 35.5
deuteranopia
#6f6f26 · ΔE00 44.6
tritanopia
#8e8e00 · ΔE00 52.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVampire Bite at ΔE00 0.286: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vampire BiteΔE00 0.286 · #c40233
- Old Glory RedΔE00 0.854 · #bf0a30
- Lipstick RedΔE00 0.859 · #c0022f
- Crimson GloryΔE00 1.222 · #be0032
- Active VolcanoΔE00 1.478 · #bb1133
- Akai RedΔE00 1.555 · #bc012e
- Hinomaru RedΔE00 1.672 · #bc002d
- Red Dead RedemptionΔE00 1.817 · #bb012d
- NipponΔE00 1.817 · #bc002c
- Ruby ShardΔE00 1.839 · #bd1c30
- ReliefΔE00 1.886 · #bf2133
- Vivid CrimsonΔE00 1.914 · #cc0033
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.