Lava Smoothie
#d04014
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d04014
RGB
208, 64, 20
OKLCh
57.6% 0.188 35.8°
CIELAB (D50)
49.2, 56.2, 55.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 71.7; on black, Lc -30.0. 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 37.0 and 39.4 and 42.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.43:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d04014
protanopia
#606018 · ΔE00 37.0
deuteranopia
#818100 · ΔE00 39.4
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 42.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFire Bolt at ΔE00 1.39: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fire BoltΔE00 1.39 · #cc4411
- Sauce PiquanteΔE00 1.393 · #ca3f16
- SinopiaΔE00 1.711 · #cb410b
- Native Hue of ResolutionΔE00 1.944 · #d33300
- Underpass ShrineΔE00 2.054 · #cc4422
- Flame of PrometheusΔE00 2.456 · #db3c02
- Red Bell PepperΔE00 2.476 · #dd3300
- Tennis CourtΔE00 2.518 · #c8450c
- Dynamite RedΔE00 2.682 · #dd3311
- Pleasant PomegranateΔE00 2.699 · #cc3300
- Torii RedΔE00 2.791 · #db3e00
- Pureed PumpkinΔE00 2.813 · #c74222
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.