HueComb

Snake Fruit

#db2217

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

Hex

#db2217

RGB

219, 34, 23

OKLCh

57.2% 0.218 29.4°

CIELAB (D50)

48.2, 68.1, 55.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 72.1; on black, Lc -29.6. 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 40.6 and 44.3 and 48.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.94:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.25:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.94:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#db2217

protanopia

#56561c · ΔE00 40.6

deuteranopia

#818100 · ΔE00 44.3

tritanopia

#a1a100 · ΔE00 48.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStoplight at ΔE00 0.948: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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