Bloodthirsty Lips
#c6101e
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c6101e
RGB
198, 16, 30
OKLCh
52.5% 0.207 26.2°
CIELAB (D50)
42.8, 65.5, 45.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 22 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 uses 97% 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 77.7; on black, Lc -24.1. 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 38.5 and 44.2 and 48.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.49:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c6101e
protanopia
#4a4a21 · ΔE00 38.5
deuteranopia
#727202 · ΔE00 44.2
tritanopia
#919100 · ΔE00 48.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSay It With Red Roses at ΔE00 0.263: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Say It With Red RosesΔE00 0.263 · #c7111e
- MonzaΔE00 0.608 · #c7031e
- Marilyn MonRougeΔE00 0.7 · #c9001e
- Evil Sunz ScarletΔE00 0.705 · #c2191f
- Rossini RedΔE00 0.753 · #c4091e
- Chinese RedΔE00 1.289 · #cd071e
- Fierce RedΔE00 1.373 · #cc0021
- Haemoglobin RedΔE00 1.402 · #c61a1b
- Pedestrian RedΔE00 1.413 · #cc1122
- Scarlet SplendourΔE00 1.43 · #cc0c1b
- Star and Crescent RedΔE00 1.467 · #c51f26
- Harvard CrimsonΔE00 1.488 · #c90016
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.