Bento Box
#cc363c
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc363c
RGB
204, 54, 60
OKLCh
56.3% 0.186 23.6°
CIELAB (D50)
47.4, 59.2, 33.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.5; on black, Lc -28.2. 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 35.4 and 42.0 and 49.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.16:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc363c
protanopia
#59593e · ΔE00 35.4
deuteranopia
#7c7c33 · ΔE00 42.0
tritanopia
#999900 · ΔE00 49.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBestial Blood at ΔE00 0.547: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bestial BloodΔE00 0.547 · #cd343d
- Trinidad Moruga ScorpionΔE00 0.783 · #d0343d
- Root ChakraΔE00 1.144 · #c83a40
- Chef’s KissΔE00 1.262 · #cc3b3b
- Madder LakeΔE00 1.386 · #cc3336
- PoinsettiaΔE00 1.516 · #cc3842
- Mullen PinkΔE00 1.539 · #ca4042
- Red BlissΔE00 1.601 · #d13b40
- Young MahoganyΔE00 1.728 · #ca3435
- Costa Rican PalmΔE00 1.763 · #c44041
- ReddishΔE00 1.948 · #c44240
- Smouldering RedΔE00 1.99 · #ca3434
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.