Bloody Salmon
#cc4433
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc4433
RGB
204, 68, 51
OKLCh
57.6% 0.175 30.3°
CIELAB (D50)
49.2, 54.0, 41.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.8; on black, Lc -29.9. 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 35.5 and 39.8 and 45.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.73:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.44:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.73:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc4433
protanopia
#616135 · ΔE00 35.5
deuteranopia
#808028 · ΔE00 39.8
tritanopia
#9b9b00 · ΔE00 45.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOh so Red at ΔE00 1.228: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Oh so RedΔE00 1.228 · #c74536
- Rebel RedΔE00 1.358 · #cd4035
- Top TomatoΔE00 1.451 · #d04838
- Mexican Red PapayaΔE00 1.63 · #c6452f
- Red FangΔE00 1.779 · #c54831
- Hawaiian Ahi PokeΔE00 1.898 · #d24833
- Scarlet RebelsΔE00 1.938 · #d44531
- Red LightningΔE00 2.191 · #d24b38
- Blade Runner RedΔE00 2.208 · #d43c35
- Steelhead ReddΔE00 2.221 · #d43728
- GrenadierΔE00 2.477 · #c14d36
- Pompeii RedΔE00 2.518 · #d1462c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.