HueComb

Electric Blood

#e23d2a

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

Hex

#e23d2a

RGB

226, 61, 42

OKLCh

60.6% 0.204 30.4°

CIELAB (D50)

52.3, 63.3, 50.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 85% 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 68.0; on black, Lc -33.7. 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 39.4 and 43.5 and 47.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.26:1 — large text only

Black text

4.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#dd3825 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

#e23d2a

protanopia

#64642d · ΔE00 39.4

deuteranopia

#8a8a14 · ΔE00 43.5

tritanopia

#a9a900 · ΔE00 47.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWistful Longing at ΔE00 0.483: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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