Fire Engine Red#FE0002, a warm vivid scarlet

Fire Engine Red in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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ART is Rhapsody's perceptual model. How ART works

What kind of orange is Fire Engine Red?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is Fire Engine Red's, measured rather than asserted.

Fire Engine Red's Munsell numbers: hue 7.8R, value 5.2 (how light), chroma 20.5 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block vivid reddish orange, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 20.5 is about as saturated as named colors get. Nothing muted shares this block.

It reaches 100% of the way to the edge of your screen's gamut (the palette a screen can actually show) for this hue. That's as saturated as Fire Engine Red gets and still shows up on a normal screen. It's also why no press can reproduce it unchanged, which the print section below explains. Same cause, both effects.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Shades of Fire Engine Red, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #FE0002. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, fire-engine-red-600.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

Is Fire Engine Red accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #FE0002 passes AA. For AAA, use its scale. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 62 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Fire Engine Red in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

This color shifts further than a press run can hold, so expect a visible difference. The pairs below show where each standard lands.

In CMYK, #FE0002 is C0 · M100 · Y99.2 · K0.4. That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get.

Colors similar to Fire Engine Red

Here are other colors similar to Fire Engine Red along with accessible text pairings and whether or not they're print-safe. Explore The Scarlets

Colors that go with Fire Engine Red

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool light blue #64B8E7. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.

Take Fire Engine Red with you

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