Cherry Sangria
#c92435
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c92435
RGB
201, 36, 53
OKLCh
54.3% 0.198 22.4°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, 63.2, 35.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 90% 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 75.9; on black, Lc -25.8. 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 36.2 and 43.5 and 50.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.79:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c92435
protanopia
#515137 · ΔE00 36.2
deuteranopia
#77772a · ΔE00 43.5
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 50.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMars Red at ΔE00 0.663: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mars RedΔE00 0.663 · #c92a37
- Classic RedΔE00 0.786 · #c52534
- MethadoneΔE00 0.813 · #cc2233
- Karakurenai RedΔE00 1.095 · #c91f37
- Movie StarΔE00 1.103 · #c52033
- Red TapeΔE00 1.291 · #cc1133
- Goji BerryΔE00 1.311 · #cc142f
- High Risk RedΔE00 1.845 · #c71f2d
- CherryΔE00 1.925 · #cf0234
- Tropical HeatΔE00 1.931 · #c2343c
- Etruscan RedΔE00 1.969 · #c9303e
- LolitaΔE00 1.973 · #bf2735
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.