Communist
#cc0000
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc0000
RGB
204, 0, 0
OKLCh
53.1% 0.218 29.2°
CIELAB (D50)
43.4, 68.3, 59.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 76.5; on black, Lc -25.2. 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 40.3 and 42.8 and 47.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.89:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.57:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.89:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc0000
protanopia
#4a4a08 · ΔE00 40.3
deuteranopia
#757500 · ΔE00 42.8
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 47.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlbanian Red at ΔE00 0.151: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Albanian RedΔE00 0.151 · #cc0001
- Soviet RedΔE00 0.212 · #cd0000
- Lannister RedΔE00 0.258 · #cd0101
- SignalΔE00 0.299 · #cc0002
- Thai ChilliΔE00 0.438 · #ce0001
- Scarlet GlowΔE00 0.48 · #cb0103
- Rebellion RedΔE00 0.504 · #cc0404
- Diablo RedΔE00 0.674 · #cd0d01
- Vampire State BuildingΔE00 0.839 · #cc1100
- Red EpiphyllumΔE00 0.851 · #d00000
- Highway to HellΔE00 0.852 · #cd1102
- Love for AllΔE00 0.855 · #cd0106
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.