HueComb

Too Hot to Handle

#bf6153

A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bf6153

RGB

191, 97, 83

OKLCh

60.1% 0.123 29.9°

CIELAB (D50)

52.6, 37.6, 26.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.2; on black, Lc -33.5. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 28.7 and 31.8 and 40.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.16:1 — large text only

Black text

5.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b95b4e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bf6153

protanopia

#717154 · ΔE00 28.7

deuteranopia

#86864f · ΔE00 31.8

tritanopia

#999900 · ΔE00 40.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBarbecue at ΔE00 1.439: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.