Reign of Tomatoes
#f7250b
A red that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f7250b
RGB
247, 37, 11
OKLCh
62.4% 0.241 30.6°
CIELAB (D50)
54.1, 74.9, 65.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 98% 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 65.2; 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 43.6 and 45.8 and 50.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.02:1 — large text only
Black text
5.22:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.22:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ea1b00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f7250b
protanopia
#626214 · ΔE00 43.6
deuteranopia
#929200 · ΔE00 45.8
tritanopia
#b6b600 · ΔE00 50.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpectacular Scarlet at ΔE00 0.468: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Spectacular ScarletΔE00 0.468 · #f72305
- Rage of Quel’DanasΔE00 0.885 · #f32507
- Apple CherryΔE00 0.907 · #f81404
- Thai HotΔE00 1.13 · #fe1c06
- EncarnadoΔE00 1.205 · #fd0202
- VermilionΔE00 1.209 · #f4320c
- Shocking CrimsonΔE00 1.249 · #ff0d04
- Fire HydrantΔE00 1.26 · #ff0d00
- Furious RedΔE00 1.268 · #ff1100
- Candy Apple RedΔE00 1.273 · #ff0800
- Fire EngineΔE00 1.28 · #fe0002
- Carolina ReaperΔE00 1.304 · #ff1500
2 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.