Chef’s Kiss
#cc3b3b
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc3b3b
RGB
204, 59, 59
OKLCh
56.8% 0.182 25.1°
CIELAB (D50)
48.1, 57.5, 35.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 72.9; on black, Lc -28.7. 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 41.3 and 48.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.26:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc3b3b
protanopia
#5c5c3d · ΔE00 35.4
deuteranopia
#7e7e31 · ΔE00 41.3
tritanopia
#999900 · ΔE00 48.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBento Box at ΔE00 1.262: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bento BoxΔE00 1.262 · #cc363c
- Madder LakeΔE00 1.263 · #cc3336
- Young MahoganyΔE00 1.478 · #ca3435
- 100 MphΔE00 1.499 · #c93f38
- Red BlissΔE00 1.56 · #d13b40
- Mullen PinkΔE00 1.573 · #ca4042
- Trinidad Moruga ScorpionΔE00 1.599 · #d0343d
- Smouldering RedΔE00 1.613 · #ca3434
- Persian RedΔE00 1.673 · #cc3333
- ReddishΔE00 1.722 · #c44240
- Bestial BloodΔE00 1.771 · #cd343d
- Holland RedΔE00 1.859 · #cb4543
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.