HueComb

Red Mist

#c92b1e

A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#c92b1e

RGB

201, 43, 30

OKLCh

54.5% 0.196 29.6°

CIELAB (D50)

45.4, 60.9, 48.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 88% 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 75.6; on black, Lc -26.1. 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 37.9 and 42.3 and 46.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.46:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.85:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.46:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c92b1e

protanopia

#535321 · ΔE00 37.9

deuteranopia

#787802 · ΔE00 42.3

tritanopia

#959500 · ΔE00 46.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Seal at ΔE00 0.519: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.