Lucky Lobster
#cc3322
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc3322
RGB
204, 51, 34
OKLCh
55.8% 0.192 30.3°
CIELAB (D50)
46.9, 59.5, 47.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 87% 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 74.1; on black, Lc -27.6. 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 37.6 and 41.8 and 46.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.06:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc3322
protanopia
#585825 · ΔE00 37.6
deuteranopia
#7c7c0b · ΔE00 41.8
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 46.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPure Red at ΔE00 1.201: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pure RedΔE00 1.201 · #d22d1d
- Red SealΔE00 1.374 · #c92d21
- Clear RedΔE00 1.429 · #ce261c
- Red MistΔE00 1.483 · #c92b1e
- Ake BloodΔE00 1.57 · #cf3a24
- Red Sauce ParlourΔE00 1.64 · #cc3b22
- Dried SaffronΔE00 1.912 · #c33e29
- Pizza FlameΔE00 2.002 · #cd2217
- Tomato BurstΔE00 2.007 · #d6201a
- GazpachoΔE00 2.097 · #c23b22
- Steelhead ReddΔE00 2.143 · #d43728
- Rackham RedΔE00 2.473 · #d6341e
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.