Frozen Tomato
#dd5533
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dd5533
RGB
221, 85, 51
OKLCh
62.4% 0.177 35.1°
CIELAB (D50)
54.9, 52.9, 47.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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 36.0 and 39.2 and 43.4 — 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
#d04926 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dd5533
protanopia
#707035 · ΔE00 36.0
deuteranopia
#8f8f26 · ΔE00 39.2
tritanopia
#aaaa00 · ΔE00 43.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInferno at ΔE00 0.654: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- InfernoΔE00 0.654 · #da5736
- Volcanic BlastΔE00 1.124 · #e15835
- Untamed OrangeΔE00 1.178 · #de5730
- OrangeadeΔE00 1.282 · #e35435
- Energetic OrangeΔE00 1.374 · #d85739
- Mod OrangeΔE00 1.852 · #d8583c
- Scoville HighΔE00 2.03 · #e34b26
- Sohi RedΔE00 2.089 · #e35c38
- Fire IslandΔE00 2.178 · #d95137
- Festival OrangeΔE00 2.211 · #de5e3f
- Medium VermilionΔE00 2.298 · #d9603b
- LangoustineΔE00 2.347 · #dc5226
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.