Track and Field
#d66352
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d66352
RGB
214, 99, 82
OKLCh
63.7% 0.148 30.3°
CIELAB (D50)
56.5, 45.3, 32.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.4; on black, Lc -38.2. 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 32.0 and 35.9 and 43.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.64:1 — large text only
Black text
5.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c45343 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d66352
protanopia
#787853 · ΔE00 32.0
deuteranopia
#91914c · ΔE00 35.9
tritanopia
#a9a900 · ΔE00 43.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBarely Brown at ΔE00 1.604: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Barely BrownΔE00 1.604 · #dd6655
- Deep Sea CoralΔE00 2.031 · #d86157
- CoraliteΔE00 2.204 · #dd675a
- Desert CoralΔE00 2.215 · #d16459
- Southwestern ClayΔE00 2.234 · #cc6758
- FlamingoΔE00 2.283 · #e1634f
- DaringΔE00 2.291 · #df644e
- Red WireΔE00 2.374 · #db5947
- PimentoΔE00 2.39 · #dc5d47
- Flame StitchΔE00 2.716 · #d65d45
- Japanese KimonoΔE00 2.81 · #cc6358
- RomanΔE00 2.987 · #d8625b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.