Cherry Red (#D2042D) is a medium, highly saturated red hue. Cherry red is bright and glossy, popular for retro diners, cars and lipstick.
In RGB it is made of 210 red, 4 green and 45 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 348° with 96% saturation and 42% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 55% with a chroma of 0.219. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 98% magenta, 79% yellow and 18% black.
As a text color on white, Cherry Red has a contrast ratio of 5.53:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text. On black it reaches 3.8:1 and passes AA only for large text. If you use Cherry Red as a background, put white text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 29 for black text and Lc -80 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #008088, close to teal. Colors that look most similar are crimson, raspberry, ruby. People with red-green color blindness see cherry red quite differently (ΔE 22), so do not rely on it alone to signal meaning.