Chili Red sits in the warm band at #cd1c18. The name carries a real history — bold has been describing this part of the spectrum for longer than the spectrum has been a word.
Old English *beald*
Old English beald, brave, courageous — a quality word that crossed over to color in the late seventeenth century. Bold describes a color that asserts itself: high saturation combined with mid lightness, where the hue presents itself without compromise. Sits at the center of the bold-bucket grid, near strong and rich. Closer to a presence word than a pigment word.
A vivid warm red
Sits at OKLCH lightness 0.54, chroma 0.209, hue 29° — a vivid warm red, the kind of color that earns its place loudly.
Mid-luminance — the body-text decision goes either way. Test both directions; a 4.5:1 ratio against pure white or pure black is reachable, neither is automatic.
Pairings + neighbors
Triadic counterparts sit at #18cd1b and #1b18cd — three slices of the wheel 120° apart, the classic balanced trio. The pairings stay in the warm register if all three keep their saturation; pull one toward neutral and the trio turns into a feature-with-supporting-cast.
The closest curated cousin in the library is International Orange at #ba160c — a near-perceptual match (ΔE 6.1 in CIELAB). Worth the click if today's color almost works but you want to test a sibling.
Auto-composed from the etymology corpus and computed color properties · subject to revision