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#da2811

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

Hex

#da2811

RGB

218, 40, 17

OKLCh

57.3% 0.214 30.9°

CIELAB (D50)

48.5, 66.4, 57.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 96% 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 72.0; on black, Lc -29.7. 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 40.3 and 43.2 and 47.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.89:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.29:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.89:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#da2811

protanopia

#585817 · ΔE00 40.3

deuteranopia

#818100 · ΔE00 43.2

tritanopia

#a1a100 · ΔE00 47.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHalloween Punch at ΔE00 0.666: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

3 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.