Kiss of the Scorpion
#dc331a
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#dc331a
RGB
220, 51, 26
OKLCh
58.5% 0.208 31.5°
CIELAB (D50)
49.9, 64.3, 55.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 92% 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 70.5; on black, Lc -31.1. 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 39.7 and 43.0 and 47.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.53:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dc331a
protanopia
#5d5d1e · ΔE00 39.7
deuteranopia
#858500 · ΔE00 43.0
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 47.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFatal Fury at ΔE00 0.712: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fatal FuryΔE00 0.712 · #da321c
- Rackham RedΔE00 1.401 · #d6341e
- Dynamite RedΔE00 1.434 · #dd3311
- DevilishΔE00 1.534 · #dd3322
- Run Lola RunΔE00 1.619 · #da2811
- Halloween PunchΔE00 1.719 · #dd2211
- Dazzling RedΔE00 1.961 · #d82c0d
- Thicker Than WaterΔE00 2.045 · #e02006
- Shōjōhi RedΔE00 2.106 · #dc3023
- Red Wrath of ZeusΔE00 2.161 · #e0180c
- FurnaceΔE00 2.165 · #dd4124
- Snake FruitΔE00 2.208 · #db2217
3 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.