Tomato Burst
#d6201a
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d6201a
RGB
214, 32, 26
OKLCh
56.2% 0.214 28.7°
CIELAB (D50)
47.1, 67.1, 52.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 93% 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 73.4; on black, Lc -28.3. 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 40.1 and 44.2 and 48.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.15:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.08:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.15:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d6201a
protanopia
#54541e · ΔE00 40.1
deuteranopia
#7e7e00 · ΔE00 44.2
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 48.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPure Red at ΔE00 1.165: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pure RedΔE00 1.165 · #d22d1d
- Dragon’s LairΔE00 1.379 · #d50c15
- Maximum RedΔE00 1.443 · #d92121
- Snake FruitΔE00 1.451 · #db2217
- Clear RedΔE00 1.452 · #ce261c
- Red KnucklesΔE00 1.454 · #dd0011
- StoplightΔE00 1.543 · #dd1111
- SetsugekkaΔE00 1.753 · #e00012
- Heroic RedΔE00 1.789 · #d1191c
- RedsurrectionΔE00 1.825 · #d90b0b
- Pizza FlameΔE00 1.862 · #cd2217
- Tomato BabyΔE00 1.878 · #e10d18
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.