HueComb

Lava

#cf1020

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

Hex

#cf1020

RGB

207, 16, 32

OKLCh

54.2% 0.214 26.1°

CIELAB (D50)

44.7, 67.8, 47.3

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 uses 97% 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 75.6; 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 39.4 and 45.2 and 49.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.60:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.75:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.60:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cf1020

protanopia

#4d4d23 · ΔE00 39.4

deuteranopia

#787802 · ΔE00 45.2

tritanopia

#979700 · ΔE00 49.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFire Axe Red at ΔE00 0.36: 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.