Fire Engine Red #FE0002

About this color

#FE0002 is a medium-light, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 63%, its chroma 0.257 and its hue 29°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Fire Engine Red. Black text reads best on it, at 5.21:1.

Colors that go with Fire Engine Red

Matches found by rotating Fire Engine Red around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Fire Engine Red

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Fire Engine Red, closest first.

• Poster Rally
• Marquee Press
• Flag Stand
• Stamp Edition

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Fire Engine Red, with their ΔE distance.

• Red #FF0000 ΔE 0.002
• Bright Red #FF000D ΔE 0.004
• Cherry Red #F7022A ΔE 0.023
• Vermillion #F4320C ΔE 0.028
• Neon Red #FF073A ΔE 0.031
• Tomato Red #EC2D01 ΔE 0.036
• Strawberry #FB2943 ΔE 0.038
• Red Orange #FD3C06 ΔE 0.038

More about Fire Engine Red

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Fire Engine Red

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts red
• 1 part yellow

Recipe result: #E63F2F, a difference of ΔE 0.052 from Fire Engine Red. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Fire Engine Red in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Fire Engine Red

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 500.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FFF2F0

   oklch(97.1% 0.014 28)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FFE2DE

   oklch(93.5% 0.033 27.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FFCBC2

   oklch(88.5% 0.061 29.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FFA698

   oklch(81% 0.108 29.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #FF6A59

   oklch(70.7% 0.185 29.1)

6. Step 500

   500 (this color)

   #FE0002

   oklch(62.6% 0.257 29.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #D90001

   oklch(55.6% 0.228 29.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #B80001

   oklch(49.1% 0.202 29.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #980001

   oklch(42.7% 0.175 29.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #800000

    oklch(37.7% 0.155 29.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #4E0302

    oklch(26.9% 0.106 29)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Fire Engine Red with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.