Fireball
#ce2029
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ce2029
RGB
206, 32, 41
OKLCh
54.8% 0.206 25.5°
CIELAB (D50)
45.5, 65.2, 43.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 75.2; on black, Lc -26.6. 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 38.3 and 44.3 and 49.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.44:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.86:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.44:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ce2029
protanopia
#51512b · ΔE00 38.3
deuteranopia
#797917 · ΔE00 44.3
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 49.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPhilippine Red at ΔE00 1.127: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Philippine RedΔE00 1.127 · #ce1127
- Splatter MovieΔE00 1.148 · #d01a2c
- Flaming CherryΔE00 1.276 · #d4202a
- Amaranth RedΔE00 1.294 · #d3212d
- Flush MahoganyΔE00 1.326 · #ca2425
- Cartoon ViolenceΔE00 1.35 · #d01722
- Peri PeriΔE00 1.492 · #c62d2c
- Cardinal RageΔE00 1.505 · #d10929
- Pedestrian RedΔE00 1.528 · #cc1122
- LavaΔE00 1.639 · #cf1020
- Dangerous AffairΔE00 1.699 · #d00220
- Fire Axe RedΔE00 1.714 · #ce1620
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.