Red Arremer
#e44e4d
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e44e4d
RGB
228, 78, 77
OKLCh
63.0% 0.186 24.5°
CIELAB (D50)
55.3, 58.9, 34.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.7; on black, Lc -37.0. 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 42.1 and 50.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.82:1 — large text only
Black text
5.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#d64041 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
#e44e4d
protanopia
#6e6e4e · ΔE00 36.0
deuteranopia
#909044 · ΔE00 42.1
tritanopia
#aeae00 · ΔE00 50.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isX Marks the Spot at ΔE00 1.054: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- X Marks the SpotΔE00 1.054 · #e6474a
- FeverΔE00 1.055 · #ea4c4c
- ThimbleberryΔE00 1.517 · #e34b50
- FlushedΔE00 2.009 · #dd5555
- CapocolloΔE00 2.039 · #d9544d
- Vermilion CinnabarΔE00 2.175 · #e34244
- Glowing Brake DiscΔE00 2.284 · #ee4444
- Rosy SunsetΔE00 2.314 · #d95854
- Bricks of HopeΔE00 2.328 · #db5856
- Pastel StrawberryΔE00 2.337 · #ef4f4c
- WatermelonadeΔE00 2.573 · #eb4652
- Re-EntryΔE00 2.622 · #dd484e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.