Thunderous Tomato
Thunderous Tomato (#6E1F31) is a deep red with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (346°, 56%, 28%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Old English thunor, thunder — adjectival suffix -ous, sharing root with German Donner and Old Norse Þórr (Thor). As a color modifier, thunderous implies a deep-and-rumbling-and-imposing-cool quality, the dark cool-gray of cumulonimbus-tower-base storm-cloud directly overhead. Sits at the deep-and-turbulent end of the grid, parallel to stormy with auditory-resonance overtone.
Solanum lycopersicum — domesticated in Mesoamerica, suspect in sixteenth-century Europe (the Italians called it pomo d'oro, golden apple), and now the most-grown fruit on earth. The color refers to a fully ripe vine-tomato: a saturated red-orange that's warmer than scarlet and brighter than brick. The pigment, lycopene, is the same one that colors watermelon and pink grapefruit.
Closest matches
The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.
Variations
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Accessibility
How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.
The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.