Red Hot Chili Pepper
#db1d27
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#db1d27
RGB
219, 29, 39
OKLCh
57.0% 0.219 26.1°
CIELAB (D50)
48.0, 69.2, 47.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 94% 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 72.3; on black, Lc -29.4. 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 45.9 and 50.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.22:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#db1d27
protanopia
#55552a · ΔE00 40.1
deuteranopia
#80800f · ΔE00 45.9
tritanopia
#a1a100 · ΔE00 50.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoyal Mail Red at ΔE00 0.602: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Royal Mail RedΔE00 0.602 · #da202a
- Cherry ShineΔE00 0.651 · #d81d26
- Angry TomatoΔE00 0.683 · #d82029
- Piercing RedΔE00 0.853 · #dd1122
- Whero RedΔE00 1.117 · #dd262b
- Untamed RedΔE00 1.141 · #dd0022
- Chi-GongΔE00 1.321 · #d52b2d
- Cadmium RedΔE00 1.406 · #e30022
- Maximum RedΔE00 1.569 · #d92121
- Fiery RedΔE00 1.596 · #dd1e2e
- Flaming CherryΔE00 1.632 · #d4202a
- Chicken CombΔE00 1.723 · #dd2222
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.