Jelly Slug
#de6646
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#de6646
RGB
222, 102, 70
OKLCh
65.1% 0.158 35.9°
CIELAB (D50)
58.2, 46.3, 41.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.4; on black, Lc -40.3. 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 33.3 and 36.4 and 41.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.45:1 — large text only
Black text
6.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c75132 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
#de6646
protanopia
#7c7c47 · ΔE00 33.3
deuteranopia
#97973e · ΔE00 36.4
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 41.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOld Cheddar at ΔE00 0.574: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Old CheddarΔE00 0.574 · #dd6644
- Coral OrangeΔE00 1.685 · #e4694c
- Festival OrangeΔE00 1.758 · #de5e3f
- Heirloom BlushΔE00 1.896 · #e3664c
- Dusty OrangeΔE00 1.916 · #e16d4f
- Medium VermilionΔE00 2.336 · #d9603b
- Flint Corn RedΔE00 2.42 · #d9623b
- Sohi RedΔE00 2.437 · #e35c38
- Bonfire NightΔE00 2.446 · #de6a41
- Emergency ZoneΔE00 2.467 · #e36940
- Citrus NotesΔE00 2.515 · #d26643
- FireglowΔE00 2.604 · #d65e40
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.