Vermilion Scarlet
#d1062b
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d1062b
RGB
209, 6, 43
OKLCh
54.4% 0.218 23.1°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, 69.5, 41.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 75.2; on black, Lc -26.5. 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 38.7 and 46.0 and 52.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.57:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.77:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.57:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d1062b
protanopia
#4d4d2d · ΔE00 38.7
deuteranopia
#787819 · ΔE00 46.0
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 52.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCardinal Rage at ΔE00 0.616: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cardinal RageΔE00 0.616 · #d10929
- Splatter MovieΔE00 1.035 · #d01a2c
- Goji BerryΔE00 1.237 · #cc142f
- Super Rose RedΔE00 1.286 · #cb1028
- Philippine RedΔE00 1.308 · #ce1127
- High Risk RedΔE00 1.712 · #c71f2d
- MethadoneΔE00 1.719 · #cc2233
- FireballΔE00 2.013 · #ce2029
- Amaranth RedΔE00 2.082 · #d3212d
- Rare RhubarbΔE00 2.129 · #cc0022
- Red TapeΔE00 2.326 · #cc1133
- Fierce RedΔE00 2.333 · #cc0021
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.