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Red blocks in Minecraft

76 of the blocks in Java Edition 26.2 come out red, lightest first. The hex under each one is the dominant colour of the textures that block is drawn with, measured from the files themselves.

Every red block 76

Split at about the middle of the family: 39 light red blocks at 46% lightness or more, and 37 dark ones below that.

Light red blocks39

Dark red blocks37

The hex values

The whole family as text, lightest first, ready to paste into a palette, a map-art planner or a shader.

76 red hex values 
#e7c2bb  Cherry Button
#e7c2bb  Cherry Fence
#e7c2bb  Cherry Fence Gate
#e7c2bb  Cherry Planks
#e7c2bb  Cherry Pressure Plate
#e7c2bb  Cherry Sign
#e7c2bb  Cherry Slab
#e7c2bb  Cherry Stairs
#e7c2bb  Cherry Trapdoor
#e7c2bb  Cherry Wall Sign
#e7bab4  Cherry Door
#db979b  Stripped Cherry Log
#da959b  Cherry Hanging Sign
#da959b  Cherry Wall Hanging Sign
#da969b  Stripped Cherry Wood
#e3826c  Copper Trapdoor
#e3826c  Cut Copper
#e3826c  Cut Copper Slab
#e3826c  Cut Copper Stairs
#e3826c  Waxed Copper Trapdoor
#e3826c  Waxed Cut Copper
#e3826c  Waxed Cut Copper Slab
#e3826c  Waxed Cut Copper Stairs
#c67875  Cherry Shelf
#ba8277  Exposed Lightning Rod
#ba8277  Waxed Exposed Lightning Rod
#b07c6c  Exposed Copper Door
#b07c6c  Waxed Exposed Copper Door
#ed302c  Poppy
#fd0000  Redstone Torch
#fd0000  Redstone Wall Torch
#e21212  Red Mushroom
#c72a28  Red Mushroom Block
#e62008  Block of Redstone
#a14d4e  Pink Terracotta
#a94441  Cinnabar Brick Slab
#a94441  Cinnabar Brick Stairs
#a94441  Cinnabar Brick Wall
#a94441  Cinnabar Bricks
#b53129  Red Bed
#9b5643  Brick Slab
#9b5643  Brick Stairs
#9b5643  Brick Wall
#9b5643  Bricks
#a73532  Red Concrete Powder
#b12e26  Red Glazed Terracotta
#964b42  Cinnabar
#964b42  Cinnabar Slab
#964b42  Cinnabar Stairs
#964b42  Cinnabar Wall
#9a5038  Copper Lantern
#9a5038  Waxed Copper Lantern
#993333  Red Stained Glass
#993333  Red Stained Glass Pane
#9c3630  Polished Cinnabar
#9c3630  Polished Cinnabar Slab
#9c3630  Polished Cinnabar Stairs
#9c3630  Polished Cinnabar Wall
#a4222f  Fire Coral Block
#8d3c2e  Red Terracotta
#982321  Red Carpet
#982321  Red Wool
#902120  Red Candle
#8e2020  Black Glazed Terracotta
#8e2121  Red Concrete
#912d11  TNT
#7b0000  Nether Wart Block
#7b0000  Weeping Vines Plant
#620202  Activator Rail
#5a0000  Weeping Vines
#541209  Golden Dandelion
#4b0000  Redstone Wire
#440507  Red Nether Brick Slab
#440507  Red Nether Brick Stairs
#440507  Red Nether Brick Wall
#440507  Red Nether Bricks

Where the colour comes from

Each colour is measured, not chosen: the block's textures are read out of the client jar, transparent pixels are dropped, the rest are quantised to four bits per channel and the largest group is the dominant colour. It is converted to HSL to pick the family — hue first, with saturation and lightness deciding white, grey, black and brown, since brown is a dark or muted red, orange or yellow rather than a hue of its own.

One of these is tinted too, but with a colour the game uses in every biome rather than a biome one: Redstone Wire. The measured colour is the texture multiplied by that fixed value.

One state per block, the resting one the inventory shows, and one render each at fit=block so a torch and a full cube are drawn at the same scale. Every block here links to its own page, where the same colour is listed next to the textures it came from.

Questions about red blocks

What are the red blocks in Minecraft?

Java Edition 26.2 has 76 blocks whose measured colour is red, among them Red Concrete, Cherry Planks and Block of Redstone. The full list on this page runs lightest first, from Cherry Button to Red Nether Bricks.

What is the lightest red block, and the darkest?

The lightest is Cherry Button (#e7c2bb, 82% lightness) and the darkest is Red Nether Bricks (#440507, 14% lightness), going by the dominant colour of each block's textures.

Which blocks count as light red, and which as dark red?

This page splits the family at about its middle: the 39 blocks at 46% lightness or more are listed as light red, from Cherry Button to Cinnabar Bricks, and the other 37 as dark red, from Red Bed to Red Nether Bricks. Lightness is the L of the measured hex in HSL.

What is the hex code for Red Concrete?

#8e2121: the dominant colour of its textures, the most common colour once transparent pixels are dropped and the rest are quantised to four bits per channel. Every other red block's hex is in the list above.