Cherry Crush
#c71414
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c71414
RGB
199, 20, 20
OKLCh
52.8% 0.207 28.3°
CIELAB (D50)
43.1, 65.1, 51.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 96% 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 77.4; on black, Lc -24.4. 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 39.0 and 43.0 and 47.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.54:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c71414
protanopia
#4b4b18 · ΔE00 39.0
deuteranopia
#737300 · ΔE00 43.0
tritanopia
#919100 · ΔE00 47.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVenetian Red at ΔE00 0.791: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Venetian RedΔE00 0.791 · #c80815
- Lazy Shell RedΔE00 0.893 · #cc0011
- Hawthorn BerryΔE00 1.118 · #cc1111
- Haemoglobin RedΔE00 1.183 · #c61a1b
- Furious TomatoΔE00 1.205 · #c30a12
- Harvard CrimsonΔE00 1.257 · #c90016
- Red RhapsodyΔE00 1.334 · #ca1b1b
- Re-Entry RedΔE00 1.401 · #cd0317
- Bloody RedΔE00 1.423 · #ca1f1b
- Hypnotic RedΔE00 1.501 · #cf0d14
- Love GoddessΔE00 1.539 · #cd0d0d
- Blood KissΔE00 1.638 · #c30b0a
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.