Cherry
#cf0234
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cf0234
RGB
207, 2, 52
OKLCh
54.1% 0.217 20.4°
CIELAB (D50)
44.4, 69.5, 35.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 75.6; on black, Lc -26.1. 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 36.9 and 45.9 and 53.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.71:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cf0234
protanopia
#4b4b36 · ΔE00 36.9
deuteranopia
#777727 · ΔE00 45.9
tritanopia
#979700 · ΔE00 53.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVivid Crimson at ΔE00 0.691: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vivid CrimsonΔE00 0.691 · #cc0033
- Red TapeΔE00 0.76 · #cc1133
- Karakurenai RedΔE00 1.305 · #c91f37
- CarmineΔE00 1.464 · #d60036
- True RedΔE00 1.8 · #c81a3a
- Goji BerryΔE00 1.89 · #cc142f
- Cherry SangriaΔE00 1.925 · #c92435
- Kurenai RedΔE00 1.961 · #d7003a
- Movie StarΔE00 1.981 · #c52033
- Classic RedΔE00 2.228 · #c52534
- MethadoneΔE00 2.229 · #cc2233
- CardinalΔE00 2.338 · #c41e3a
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.