Hot Shot
#ec4f28
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ec4f28
RGB
236, 79, 40
OKLCh
64.0% 0.200 34.7°
CIELAB (D50)
56.5, 60.1, 55.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% 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 63.2; on black, Lc -38.5. 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 38.9 and 42.0 and 45.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.67:1 — large text only
Black text
5.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#da3d11 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
#ec4f28
protanopia
#71712b · ΔE00 38.9
deuteranopia
#95950e · ΔE00 42.0
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 45.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKaraka Orange at ΔE00 0.968: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Karaka OrangeΔE00 0.968 · #f04925
- Chinese GoldfishΔE00 1.347 · #f34723
- Burning TomatoΔE00 1.486 · #eb5030
- Heating LampΔE00 1.651 · #ee4422
- FuegoΔE00 1.776 · #ee5533
- Scorpio Scarlet SealΔE00 1.87 · #e75323
- Scoville HighΔE00 2.119 · #e34b26
- Nasturtium FlowerΔE00 2.149 · #e64d1d
- Reddish OrangeΔE00 2.213 · #f8481c
- Day Glow OrangeΔE00 2.289 · #eb5c34
- Volcanic BlastΔE00 2.362 · #e15835
- Tilted PinballΔE00 2.363 · #ee5522
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.