Pleasant Pomegranate
#cc3300
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc3300
RGB
204, 51, 0
OKLCh
55.6% 0.196 34.9°
CIELAB (D50)
46.7, 59.2, 59.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 74.2; on black, Lc -27.5. 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 37.8 and 39.5 and 43.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.04:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc3300
protanopia
#585808 · ΔE00 37.8
deuteranopia
#7c7c00 · ΔE00 39.5
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 43.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNative Hue of Resolution at ΔE00 1.468: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Native Hue of ResolutionΔE00 1.468 · #d33300
- Sauce PiquanteΔE00 2.154 · #ca3f16
- SinopiaΔE00 2.27 · #cb410b
- Harley Davidson OrangeΔE00 2.353 · #c93413
- Piment PiquantΔE00 2.524 · #cc2200
- Lava SmoothieΔE00 2.699 · #d04014
- Fire BoltΔE00 2.845 · #cc4411
- Particle Ioniser RedΔE00 2.875 · #cb3215
- Tennis CourtΔE00 3.043 · #c8450c
- Dazzling RedΔE00 3.118 · #d82c0d
- MahoganyΔE00 3.213 · #c04000
- Vinaceous TawnyΔE00 3.275 · #c74300
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.