Colors / Red
shades of red
The narrowest band on the wheel and the one the eye guards most closely. Red sits either side of 0°, wrapping from 345° to 10°.
The shade ramp
Same hue and saturation, brightness falling from near-white to near-black. This is what most people mean by “shades of red”.
The tint ramp
Same hue and brightness, saturation climbing from almost gray to full strength. Saturation is the channel players misjudge most often, because a washed-out red and a vivid one carry the same name.
Across the range
Everything the eye files under red, sampled from 345° to 10°. Two colors at opposite ends of this strip still share one word.
Named reds
- Crimson
#DC143C - Firebrick
#B22222 - Scarlet
#FF2400 - Maroon
#800000 - Cardinal
#C41E3A
Why red is hard to remember
Red is the hue people recall most confidently and reproduce least accurately. Because pure red anchors the wheel, most guesses drift toward orange — the surrounding hues are all warmer, so there is more room to miss on one side than the other.
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