HueComb

War Paint Red

#dc571d

A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#dc571d

RGB

220, 87, 29

OKLCh

62.4% 0.179 40.6°

CIELAB (D50)

54.9, 51.3, 57.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • 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 65.3; on black, Lc -36.4. 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 35.5 and 37.5 and 40.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.87:1 — large text only

Black text

5.42:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.42:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cf4b07 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#dc571d

protanopia

#717120 · ΔE00 35.5

deuteranopia

#909000 · ΔE00 37.5

tritanopia

#aaaa00 · ΔE00 40.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFurious Fox at ΔE00 1.265: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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