HueComb

Pimento

#dc5d47

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

Hex

#dc5d47

RGB

220, 93, 71

OKLCh

63.5% 0.164 31.8°

CIELAB (D50)

56.2, 49.7, 38.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.7; on black, Lc -38.0. 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 34.2 and 38.1 and 44.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.68:1 — large text only

Black text

5.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cb4d38 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

#dc5d47

protanopia

#757548 · ΔE00 34.2

deuteranopia

#92923f · ΔE00 38.1

tritanopia

#abab00 · ΔE00 44.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlame Stitch at ΔE00 1.262: 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.