Smooch Rouge
#d13d4b
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d13d4b
RGB
209, 61, 75
OKLCh
58.1% 0.184 19.9°
CIELAB (D50)
49.4, 59.0, 27.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.4; on black, Lc -30.3. 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 33.6 and 41.5 and 51.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.69:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.48:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.69:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d13d4b
protanopia
#5e5e4c · ΔE00 33.6
deuteranopia
#818144 · ΔE00 41.5
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 51.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlesh and Blood at ΔE00 1.134: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Flesh and BloodΔE00 1.134 · #cf3f4f
- AnarchistΔE00 1.906 · #db304a
- Zhū Hóng VermillionΔE00 1.968 · #cb464a
- English VermillionΔE00 1.993 · #cc474b
- Feverish PinkΔE00 2.173 · #cb3e50
- Bloody RustΔE00 2.257 · #da2c43
- PoinsettiaΔE00 2.299 · #cc3842
- Infrared FlushΔE00 2.303 · #cc3344
- PezzottaiteΔE00 2.478 · #d03b52
- Rusty ChainmailΔE00 2.499 · #c6494c
- Red Prickly PearΔE00 2.502 · #d92849
- Tōnatiuh RedΔE00 2.538 · #d14155
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.