Thai Chilli
#ce0001
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ce0001
RGB
206, 0, 1
OKLCh
53.5% 0.219 29.1°
CIELAB (D50)
43.8, 68.8, 59.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 22 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.1; on black, Lc -25.7. 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 40.5 and 43.0 and 47.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.79:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.62:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.79:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ce0001
protanopia
#4a4a09 · ΔE00 40.5
deuteranopia
#767600 · ΔE00 43.0
tritanopia
#969600 · ΔE00 47.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLannister Red at ΔE00 0.192: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lannister RedΔE00 0.192 · #cd0101
- Soviet RedΔE00 0.249 · #cd0000
- Albanian RedΔE00 0.425 · #cc0001
- CommunistΔE00 0.438 · #cc0000
- Red EpiphyllumΔE00 0.462 · #d00000
- SignalΔE00 0.462 · #cc0002
- Rebellion RedΔE00 0.511 · #cc0404
- Diablo RedΔE00 0.518 · #cd0d01
- Highway to HellΔE00 0.664 · #cd1102
- Scarlet GlowΔE00 0.694 · #cb0103
- Love for AllΔE00 0.733 · #cd0106
- Vampire State BuildingΔE00 0.813 · #cc1100
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.