Methadone
#cc2233
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc2233
RGB
204, 34, 51
OKLCh
54.7% 0.202 22.9°
CIELAB (D50)
45.3, 64.4, 36.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 92% 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 75.4; on black, Lc -26.3. 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 36.9 and 44.0 and 50.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.46:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.84:1 — 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
#cc2233
protanopia
#515135 · ΔE00 36.9
deuteranopia
#787827 · ΔE00 44.0
tritanopia
#969600 · ΔE00 50.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCherry Sangria at ΔE00 0.813: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cherry SangriaΔE00 0.813 · #c92435
- Mars RedΔE00 0.936 · #c92a37
- Goji BerryΔE00 1.095 · #cc142f
- Classic RedΔE00 1.418 · #c52534
- High Risk RedΔE00 1.623 · #c71f2d
- Red TapeΔE00 1.648 · #cc1133
- Movie StarΔE00 1.719 · #c52033
- Vermilion ScarletΔE00 1.719 · #d1062b
- Splatter MovieΔE00 1.727 · #d01a2c
- Karakurenai RedΔE00 1.794 · #c91f37
- Cardinal RageΔE00 2.092 · #d10929
- Madder LakeΔE00 2.22 · #cc3336
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.