HueComb

Mexican Chile

#d16d76

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

Hex

#d16d76

RGB

209, 109, 118

OKLCh

65.2% 0.126 15.5°

CIELAB (D50)

58.3, 40.8, 14.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.2; on black, Lc -40.5. 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 27.0 and 32.4 and 47.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.41:1 — large text only

Black text

6.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ba5862 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

#d16d76

protanopia

#7e7e77 · ΔE00 27.0

deuteranopia

#949473 · ΔE00 32.4

tritanopia

#a8a800 · ΔE00 47.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLotus Red at ΔE00 1.252: 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.