HueComb

Pizza Flame

#cd2217

A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#cd2217

RGB

205, 34, 23

OKLCh

54.6% 0.206 29.4°

CIELAB (D50)

45.3, 64.2, 51.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 92% 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 75.4; on black, Lc -26.3. 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 39.1 and 42.9 and 47.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.47:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.84:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.47:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cd2217

protanopia

#51511b · ΔE00 39.1

deuteranopia

#797900 · ΔE00 42.9

tritanopia

#979700 · ΔE00 47.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClear Red at ΔE00 0.836: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.